1967 Metal and Engineering Industrial Council Agreement

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	employer association records
Producer	National Industrial Council for the Iron, Steel, Engineering and Metallurgical Industries
Coverage	1967
Works using it	2

Debates

Debate	Works
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	3
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining	1
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	1
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Mariotti (2009a)	Industry labor agreements, e.g. 1967 metal and engineering industry agreement (as reported by Horrell 1969)	1967 and late 1960s	Illustrates the renegotiation of job reservation and reclassification of occupations as lower-skilled so they could be opened to non-whites.
Mariotti (2010)	National Industrial Council for the Iron, Steel, Engineering and Metallurgical industries agreement, 1967	1967	Case study showing how occupation recoding and wage categories opened semi-skilled jobs to Africans while formal job reservation was retained.