Transvaal Labour Commission 1903-04, report and evidence

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	commission or official report
Producer	Transvaal Labour Commission
Coverage	1903-1904
Works using it	4

Debates

Debate	Works
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	3
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	3
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	2
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor	2
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry	1
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War	1
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Jeeves (1975a)	Report and Evidence of the Transvaal Labour Commission, 1903	1903	Testimony on pre-war compound conditions, labour touts, and the mortality report by mine doctors.
Massey (1983)	Transvaal Labour Commission testimony of Percy Fitzpatrick, February 1904 (via Webster, SALB 1974)	1904	Quoted as mine-owner testimony that the Native Labour Association pooled demand to hold wages down (monopsony).
Moodie (2005)	Transvaal Labour Commission 1904, Minutes of Proceedings (Cd. 1896)	1904	Testimony of farmer van Staden and Chief Umhalla showing disciplinary violence as a normal colonial labour-control practice.
Morrell (1988)	Evidence to Transvaal Labour Commission (1903)	1903	Supplies wage comparisons between mines and farms and Erskine's recruiting figures.