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Van Eck Commission (Industrial and Agricultural Requirements, UG 40/1941)

Literature › Primary sources
Kind commission or official report
Producer Industrial and Agricultural Requirements Commission
Coverage 1941
Works using it 6

Debates

Debate Works
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 4
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism 3
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 1
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis 1
White electoral politics, delimitation and party systems 1
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement 1
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Coupe (1995) Third Interim Report of the Industrial and Agricultural Requirements Commission (Van Eck Commission) (UG 40-41) 1941 Shows wartime state policy to give whites priority in skilled and operative work.
Legassick (1974) Third (Interim) Report of the Agricultural and Industrial Requirements Commission (Van Eck Report), UG 40-1941 1941 Shows state wartime thinking on mechanization, racial ratios in industry and substituting cheaper black labour for unskilled whites.
Lewis (1984b) van Eck Commission (Industrial and Agricultural Requirements Commission, Third interim report, UG40-1941) 1941 Shows state strategy of reclassifying skill, expanding African semi-skilled use and training whites.
Massie (1997) South African government commission report of 1941 on manufacturing dependence 1941 Supports the argument that the state recognised the need for a domestic manufacturing base.
O'Meara (1978) Third (Interim) Report of the Agricultural and Industrial Requirements Commission (UG 40/1941) (Van Eck Report) 1941 Shows state advocacy of further mechanisation and 'low-paid' African operatives.
White (1990) 1941 van Eck Report and April 1948 Fagan (Native Laws) Commission Report; 1946 Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act; Sauer Commission Report 1941-1948 Establishes the Smuts government's enlightened but pragmatic race policy and the UP's later retreat.