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Homeland development corporation archives, almanacs and periodicals

Literature › Primary sources

Kind company records or reports
Producer Homeland development corporations
Coverage 1977-1994
Works using it 3

Debates

Debate Works
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 3
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Kerby (2014) Transkei Development Corporation 1983 Almanac and Transkei Today Vol. 3 No. 2 (April-June 1985), Mthatha Archives 1983-1985 Provides the statutory minimum wage (35c/hour) and bans on strikes and unions used to corroborate estimates of homeland wages.
Kerby (2016a) Homeland development corporation archives and trade publications (TDC Mthatha/Umtata, KFC Pietermaritzburg, QwaQwa/Free State DC) and Free State/KwaZulu almanacs 1977-1994 Provide qualitative accounts of Taiwanese firm behaviour, marketing in Taipei, recruitment and location reasoning.
Kerby (2016b) Homeland trade periodicals and development corporation almanacs (Transkei Today, KwaZulu 'Development', KFC, TDC, Free State DC publications 1978-1994) 1978-1994 Used for wage data and qualitative accounts of Taiwanese firms, incentives and location choice, treated with caution as propaganda.