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Barlow Rand / Rand Mines Archives (incl. Eckstein, CMIC)

Literature › Primary sources
Kind company records or reports
Producer Barlow Rand / Rand Mines / Corner House
Coverage 1886-1942
Works using it 8

Debates

Debate Works
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 5
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 4
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 4
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War 2
Historiographical approaches 2
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry 1
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking 1
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Breckenridge (1995) BRA Directors' Confidential Letters, May 1924-Feb 1929; BRA London Letters Directors' Confidential 1929-35; BRA Private Cables 1932-33; BRA Gold Standard 1931/1932 (file 252) 1924-1933 Traces the minelords' positions during the 1931-32 gold standard crisis, including Martin's letters to Wallers and the decision to abandon gold.
Breckenridge (1995) BRA Private Letters from Johannesburg and Evans Letterbooks (Samuel Evans correspondence 1923-25) 1923-1925 Documents Evans's fears of state inflation, his campaign for the gold standard and coinage of the whole output, and his reaction to British policy.
Breckenridge (1995) Barlow Rand Archives (BRA), Method of paying natives paper currency, 1473x, 1920-42, 856 1920-1942 Shows compound managers' views on paying African workers in notes, the first paper pay-day arrangements, and workers' losses when exchanging notes in Mozambique.
Feinberg (1993) Barlow-Rand Archives, Schumacher to Phillips, February 3, 1913 1913 Mine official's statement that mines had adequate labour, undermining the mine-labour-shortage thesis.
Jeeves (1975b) Rand Mines Archive, Johannesburg (RMA) 1892-1897 Private correspondence showing the group's consideration of closing mines, lobbying in Pretoria, and bribery.
Jeeves (1987) Barlow Rand Archives, CMIC (Central Mining and Investment Corporation) Archive, Box 181 1927; 1935 Company correspondence on the AVS introduction and Rand Mines Health Department reports on TB morbidity.
Jeeves (1987) Rand Mines Health Department Annual Report, 1935 (CMIC) 1915-1935 Supplies TB morbidity figures showing the decline from 1915 to 1935 after tropical recruitment ended.
Jeeves and Crush (1992) Barlow Rand Archives, CMIC Collection, Box 181, John Martin to CMIC London, 14 December 1927 1927 Records mining industry's attempts to get renewed tropical labour recruitment, met by hostile government.
Mabin (1984) Barlow Rand Archives: Hermann Eckstein correspondence (HE 124) 1886 Letters document the flow of Kimberley money to Barberton and the Rand in 1886.
Moodie (2005) Barlow Rand Archives (BRA): Nourse Mines Box 382 File 5 Native Labour 1910-18 (Barry correspondence with NRC); Private Letters 128; Central Mining correspondence 1910-1918 Documents manager Barry's piecework gangs, his opposition to the NRC maximum average schedule, and low-grade ore management.
Van-Helten (1980) Barlow Rand Ltd, Herman Eckstein and Company Archives (HE 145 F; HE 267 File 190 P): Eckstein to Phillips 17 Oct. 1907; J. Wernher to Comte de Camondo 6 Aug. 1908 1907-1908 Shows post-war involvement of Rothschilds and German banks in Rand mining finance, countering Kubicek's claim that they lost interest.
Van-Helten (1980) Herman Eckstein Archives HE 59, Wernher, Beit and Co to H. Eckstein Co, 4 Aug. 1893 1893 Shows Corner House's awareness of gold scarcity under the gold standard.
Van-Helten (1980) Herman Eckstein Archives HE 69 p. 276, Wernher, Beit and Co to H. Eckstein Co, 6 Dec. 1901 1901 Evidence on French comments and reaction to British intervention in the Transvaal.