UK Select Committee on Wages of African Workers employed by British Firms

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	commission or official report
Producer	UK House of Commons
Coverage	1973-1974
Works using it	2

Debates

Debate	Works
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	2
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	2
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	1
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism	1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Kantor and Kenny (1976)	House of Commons Report on Wages and Conditions of African Workers employed by British Firms in South Africa (1974), Para. 32	1974	Cited for its summary of the causes of racial earnings differences (occupational stratification, skill shortage, union and political rights) as an alternative to the labour theory of value.
Legassick (1974)	Minutes of Evidence of Parliamentary Select Committee on Wages and Conditions of African Workers Employed by British Firms in South Africa (HMSO, 1973)	1973	Cited as the context of the contemporary debate on black wages versus jobs.