Business Charter

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	company records or reports
Producer	South African business organisations
Coverage	c.1986
Works using it	2

Debates

Debate	Works
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	2
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	2
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining	2
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	2
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	2

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Freund (1987a)	Business Charter (business policy document, 1986)	c.1986	Read as evidence of the political limits of business thinking and its fear of mass democratisation.
Freund (1987b)	Business Charter (cited by Lipton)	1980s	Cited as evidence of the political barrenness of business circles and their fear of mass democratisation.