Transvaal Chamber of Mines Annual Reports and presidential addresses

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	employer association records
Producer	Transvaal Chamber of Mines
Coverage	1890-1950
Works using it	4

Debates

Debate	Works
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	2
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	2
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor	2
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
James (1987)	Correspondence of the Chamber of Mines and the Department of Agriculture, 14 July to 14 December 1945, reprinted in TCM Annual Report 1945	1945	Shows the Chamber lobbying against agricultural price supports and the Department's refusal, in the context of food shortages.
James (1987)	Transvaal Chamber of Mines (TCM) Annual Reports, 1936-1950, incl. presidents' speeches, labour supply, food, working cost and profit data (basis for Table 1 and Figures 1-6)	1936-1950	Supplies the time series on labour supplies by origin, ore milled, gold output and grade, working costs, profit per ounce and food rations. Also supplies the Chamber presidents' statements on labour and costs.
Jeeves (1975a)	Chamber of Mines Annual Reports (CMAR), 1890-1906	1890-1906	Documents Chamber requests for state labour assistance, pass-law drafting, wage agreements, and the 1906 correspondence with the High Commissioner on recruiting.
Johnstone (1971)	Annual Reports of the Transvaal Chamber of Mines	c.1890s-1920s	Cited (with other items in note 5) for the average ore grade on the Rand.
Moodie (1986)	Chamber of Mines presidential addresses 1944, 1945, 1946	1944-1946	Cited for the nation-wide food shortage as a major problem for mine managements.