Transvaal Gold Mining Estates archives and reports

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	company records or reports
Producer	TGME
Coverage	1895-1955
Works using it	1

Debates

Debate	Works
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Bonner and Shapiro (1987)	Barlow Rand Archive (BRA), TGME Annual Reports 1907-1932, including 'Summary of Results Since Commencement of Milling Operations', 1895-1932	1895-1932	Supplies profit figures, floods and cyclone damage, labour supply remarks, mortality comparisons and mine closures.
Bonner and Shapiro (1987)	TGME Archives, Pilgrim's Rest: General Notebooks, Head Office Notebooks, Letterbooks and mine reports (Barry to Secretaries/Chairman, etc.)	1914-1926 (notebooks), c.1915-1921	Establishes company management's views, labour policy, pressure on officials, labour shortages, flogging and responses to the 1918 influenza and 1920 strike.
Bonner and Shapiro (1987)	TGME Diaries of Mrs Gladys Barry, Jan 1915-June 1917; TGME 'Diamond Jubilee 1895-1955' (Registrar of Companies)	1915-1917; 1955	Documents the May 1915 anti-German riots and the company's German/Rand Mines links.
Bonner and Shapiro (1987)	TGME Vaalhoek Mine monthly reports 1918-1925 and Elandsdrift Mine Annual Reports 1918-1926	1917-1926	Used to show seasonal recruitment troughs (October-January) and Mozambican workers returning at that time.