Census of Manufacturing: Principal Statistics on a Regional Basis

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	industrial mining census
Producer	Department of Statistics / Central Statistical Service
Coverage	1956/57-1988
Works using it	2

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
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals	2
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism	2
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Kerby (2014)	Regional manufacturing census	Apartheid era (unspecified)	Described as containing wages but lacking racial classification, forcing researchers to assume African worker ratios; a limitation, not used directly.
Todes and Watson (1984)	Census of Manufacturing, Principal Statistics on a Regional Basis (1976)	1976	Used to compare Black manufacturing wages in selected growth centres with the national average (Table 33).