Census of Industrial Establishments (Union of South Africa)

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	industrial mining census
Producer	Office/Bureau of Census and Statistics
Coverage	1915/16-1949/50
Works using it	5

Project holdings

The project holds this source in part. See Manufacturing Census.

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
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War	1
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis	1
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals	1
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure	1
Long-run legacy and persistence of apartheid	1
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	1
Urban segregation, Group Areas and the apartheid city	1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	1
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Crankshaw (1990)	Census of Industrial Establishments, 1942-1943, U.G. 20/46, Table 1b	1942-1943	Establishes that capital intensity in building in 1946 was only a quarter of that in manufacturing generally.
Crankshaw (1990)	Censuses of Industrial Establishments 1944-45 (U.G. 37/48), 1945-46 (U.G. 50/49), 1946-47 (U.G. 63/50), 1947-48 to 1949-50 (U.G. 30/54), Table 12	1944-1950	Shows that almost 60 percent of building contractors employed fewer than 20 workers in the late 1940s.
Innes and Plaut (1978)	Private industry employment by race and sex, 1915/16 to 1929/30 (source unspecified)	1915/16-1929/30	Supports the claim of replacement of white male skilled labour by cheaper black and white female labour in manufacturing.
Krugell (2014)	First industrial census (referred to via Bos 1992)	c. 1915-1921 (not stated)	Cited via secondary literature to indicate high urbanisation and industrial development in the main cities early in the Union period.
Lumby (1974)	Industrial census series: Census of Industrial Establishments 1915/16-1941/42 (e.g. U.G.14/1918, U.G.32/1928, U.G.34/1936, U.G.21/1941, U.G.20/1945)	1915/16-1938/39 (no census 1930/31-1931/32)	Supplies the number of firms, employment by race, wages, materials, gross and net output used in all trend tables and figures on secondary industry, footwear, printing and cement.
Spandau (1972)	Census of Industrial Establishments 1942-43, U.G. No. 20 of 1946	1942-43	Supplies average weekly pay for Whites (130s.) and Bantu (27s. 7d.) for the cost-of-living allowance calculation.