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FCI memoranda, survey reports and Non-European Affairs Files

Literature › Primary sources

Kind employer association records
Producer Federated Chamber of Industries
Coverage 1951-1968
Works using it 2

Debates

Debate Works
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 1
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation 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
Posel (1990a) Federated Chamber of Industries (FCI) memoranda and survey reports, 1951-1957 (e.g. 'Native Labour Availability and Influx Control' 24.11.55; 'Memorandum on Results of the Survey on the Availability of Native Labour' 21.6.56; 'Native Labour Mobility' 18.3.57; Circular 21.3.56) 1951-1957 Shows organised industry's views on stable urbanised labour, its 1956 survey on labour bureaux use, and complaints of labour shortages and non-enforcement of the Bureaux Regulations.
Posel (1990b) FCI Non-European Affairs Files (NEAF), Minutes of Meeting of Non-European Affairs Committee, 24 January 1968 1968 Records Du Randt's meeting with FCI and FCI's opposition to tampering with Section 10 rights.