SAAU annual reports and General Council reports

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	employer association records
Producer	South African Agricultural Union
Coverage	1960-1984
Works using it	3

Debates

Debate	Works
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	2
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining	1
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	1
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation	1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	1
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism	1
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Crush (1993)	SAAU annual report 1983/4	1983/84	Shows the SAAU's continued opposition to non-farm recruitment on farms.
Greenberg (1987)	SAAU written evidence to the Commission of Enquiry into Legislation Affecting the Utilization of Manpower (Riekert); SAAU Report of the General Council 1973-74	1973-1979	Shows farmers' only perfunctory support for labour bureaux by the late 1970s and their shift to land consolidation.
Posel (1990b)	SAAU Reports of the General Council to Annual Congresses, 1960, 1961, 1962	1960-1962	Used for Land Bank loans to farmers and SAAU's shift on African urbanisation.