East London firm records and BCI reports

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	company records or reports
Producer	East London firms; Border Chamber of Industries
Coverage	1940-1961
Works using it	1

Debates

Debate	Works
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	1
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Minkley (1990)	BCI Reports for the years 1940-1961; Company Archives consulted December 1986 and 1987	1940-1961	Supports the claim of stagnation of manufacturing after 1957 and productivity problems.
Minkley (1990)	Company records and archives of East London firms (Dec. 1986, Dec. 1987, Dec. 1988), incl. Wilson Rowntree unpublished history (1961, E.L. Museum)	1940s-1960s	Shows management attitudes to white and black labour, mechanisation, de-skilling and racial supervision.