Chamber of Mines Statistical Tables

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	employer association records
Producer	Chamber of Mines of South Africa
Coverage	1984-2001
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

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Harington et al. (2004)	Statistical Tables 1994, Chamber of Mines of South Africa	1984-1994	Source for black labour force totals in 1984, 1986 and 1994 and the South African/Transkei share, and for the classification of workers by category.
Harington et al. (2004)	Statistical Tables 1998, Chamber of Mines, Johannesburg	1986-1998	Used for total employment in 1998 and its peak, world gold production share, the 1998 gold price, and Lesotho versus Transkei supply 1989-96.
Harington et al. (2004)	Statistical Tables 2001, Chamber of Mines (Figure 3)	1990-2001	Reproduced to show the average number of employees in service on Chamber gold mines declining to 2001.