Escom annual reports and records

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	company records or reports
Producer	Escom
Coverage	1927-2001
Works using it	4

Debates

Debate	Works
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure	4
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	2
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry	1
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	1
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis	1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
(ed.) et al. (1987)	Escom Annual Report 1986	1986	Source for Escom's fixed assets, employees, turnover and coal costs used in the efficiency calculation.
Clark (1987)	Escom Annual Reports (1927, 1932, 1939)	1927-1939	Source for Escom's units sold and its expansion in 1932 and 1939.
Fine and Rustomjee (1996)	Escom commissioning schedule and Statistical Review 1989	1950-2001	Used to show power station commissioning and coal contracts awarded to Afrikaner-owned mines.
Iliffe (1999)	Archival records on Escom and Iscor (including Cross's D.Phil. thesis on Iscor)	1920s-1989	Archival research shows the parastatals collaborated with private capital rather than challenging it.