Manpower Surveys data tapes

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	household or labour survey microdata
Producer	Department of Manpower / National Manpower Commission / HSRC
Coverage	1965-1990
Works using it	1

Project holdings

The project holds this source in full. See Manpower Survey.

Debates

Debate	Works
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	2
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining	2
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	2
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism	2
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Crankshaw (1996)	Manpower Survey data tapes (biennial Manpower Surveys 1965-1990, ~600 occupations by race and sex)	1965-1990	Author re-analysed the raw data tapes to reclassify ~600 occupations into 11 categories and derive race-specific employment series and shares (Figures 1-10).