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Afrikaanse Handelsinstituut statements and reports

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Kind employer association records
Producer Afrikaanse Handelsinstituut
Coverage 1957-1985
Works using it 3

Debates

Debate Works
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining 2
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis 1
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure 1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 1
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism 1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Freund (2012) Afrikaanse Handels Instituut report (1966) 1966 Cited for the claim that 35% of gainfully employed whites worked for government.
Greenberg (1983) AHI memorandum to the Wiehahn Commission c. 1978 Supports the claim about AHI attitudes toward labor reform and stratification of urban Africans.
Torchia (1988) Afrikaanse Handelsinstituut (AHI) statements, including Volkshandel and congress speeches (via Greenberg and SAIRR) 1957-1985 Traces Afrikaner business movement from supporting job reservation to backing black unions and reform.