Industrial Council agreements and minimum wage rates

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	employer association records
Producer	Industrial Councils
Coverage	1973-1990s
Works using it	3

Project holdings

The project holds this source in full. See Industrial Wages.

Debates

Debate	Works
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions	2
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	1
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Hofmeyr (1984)	Industrial Council minimum wage for construction labourers (at start of survey, 90c per hour)	c. August 1982	Used as the benchmark 'going market wage' for unskilled labour (R36/week) against which unemployed workseekers' reservation wages are compared.
Mohamed (1991)	Industrial Council Main Agreements for the electrical contracting industry (1973-1990), as reproduced in Appendix D	1973-1990	Job categories and hourly wage rates are used to show deskilling and fragmentation of the artisan category.
Moll (1996a)	Minimum-remuneration data from the Steel and Engineering and Motor Transport (Goods) Industrial Councils	early/mid 1990s (undated in text)	Gives the covered-sector minimum wages for unskilled workers, which are compared with uncovered-sector pay to measure the covered-uncovered differential.