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Chamber of Mines Human Resources Laboratory / Research Organization reports

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Producer Chamber of Mines
Coverage 1974-1980
Works using it 7

Debates

Debate Works
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 3
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 2
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 2
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 2
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor 2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 1
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Crush (1993) Chamber of Mines research reports (Parsons 1974; Parsons and Beadle 1975) and government statistics on farm labour 1974-1975 Basis for the Chamber's claim that farm labour was under-employed and 85% of the potential pool lay in closed districts.
Davies (1979a) Parsons (Chamber of Mines) manpower demand estimates projection to 1990 Provides the 2,796,000 white-collar demand figure and the 780,000 skilled and semi-skilled production jobs added in Table 2C.
Davies (1979b) J. A. Parsons, 'Manpower Needs for the Future' (unpublished paper, Chamber of Mines), quoted in SAIRR Survey 1977 projection to 1990 Projected demand for 2,796,000 white colour employees by 1990 against 1,348,000 whites available; also supplies 780,000 skilled/semi-skilled African production jobs for Table 2.
Kynoch (2000) Chamber of Mines Research Organization, A Human Resources Audit of Elandsrand Gold Mine following the April 1979 Disturbances (Project GH2CO6, Internal Report No. 5) 1979 Internal report noting workers' genuine grievances against management's blaming of Russians for the 1979 riot.
Massey (1983) J.A. Parsons, 'How Attractive is Gold Mining to Black Mineworkers?' Chamber of Mines Human Resources Laboratory, 1977 1940-1977 Supplies the series for Figure 2 relating mining wages relative to manufacturing to the share of South African-born miners.
Yudelman and Jeeves (1986a) J. A. Parsons, 'A Review of the Factors Affecting the Supply in the Short-Term of Black Manpower to the Gold Mining Industry', Human Resources Laboratory Research Report 51/74 1974 Provides the 1974 assessment of the potential for recruiting South African blacks and wage competitiveness.
Yudelman and Jeeves (1986a) Parsons and Mashaba, 'The Recruitment of Black Workers for the South African Gold Mines in the 1970s and 1980s', HRL Research Report 22/80 1980 Shows the Chamber's assessment that joint action by supplier countries was probably groundless.
Yudelman and Jeeves (1986b) Human Resources Laboratory research reports (Parsons 51/74, 1974; Parsons and Mashaba 22/80, 1980) 1974-1980 Assess short-term potential for recruiting South Africans, wage comparisons, and the 1980 view on supplier-country joint action.