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Kind employer association records
Producer Association of Chambers of Commerce of South Africa
Coverage 1960-1988
Works using it 4

Debates

Debate Works
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 2
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 2
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy 2
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 1
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking 1
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis 1
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism 1
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Coupe (1990) Cape Province Archive Depot, Records of Assocom, Executive Council minutes 17/10/60 1960 Liebenberg's letter showing Afrikaner pressure within employer organisations after Sharpeville.
Hirsch (1989) ASSOCOM (1988) 'Report on an ASSOCOM mission to Israel, Washington DC, and Europe, June-July 1988' (confidential) 1988 Shows business organisations warning the government to encourage political change to avoid further sanctions.
Macun and Wood (2001) ASSACOM Business Confidence Indexes 1-12/1987 1987 Supports the claim of an upsurge in business confidence following the 1986 State of Emergency.
Posel (1990b) ASSOCOM Unsorted Non-European Affairs Files (NEAF), including Pretoria Chamber of Commerce memorandum on 1960 Bantu in European Areas Bill and 1963-68 circulars 1960-1968 Evidences business opposition to labour quotas, Bantu Laws Amendment Bills and Bantu Labour Amendment Bill.