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Knight interviews/case studies of mining group, sugar estate, timber company

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Kind interviews oral history
Producer J.B. Knight
Coverage 1965-1975
Works using it 2

Debates

Debate Works
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 2
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 2
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions 2
Data reliability and econometric method 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Knight (1976a) Interviews and case studies of a gold/coal mining group, a large sugar estate and a timber company; author's impressions of S.A.A.U. 1972-1975 Evidence on managerial responses (mechanisation, task sizes, employment cuts) to wage increases and shortages.
Knight (1976b) Interviews and company information from a mining group, a sugar estate and a timber company 1965-1975 Case studies of employer responses to wage increases through mechanisation and reduced African employment.