Native Labour Regulation Act 1911 and Mines and Works Acts 1911/1926

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	legislation gazette
Producer	Union of South Africa Parliament
Coverage	1911-1930s
Works using it	13

Debates

Debate	Works
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	9
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	7
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	6
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism	3
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	3
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	2
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination	2
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War	1
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption	1
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement	1
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy	1
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Bonner and Shapiro (1987)	Native Labour Regulation Act No. 15 of 1911 and the 1913 regulations; Phthisis Act 1919; 1916 Government Gazette proclamation	1911-1919	Frames the legal framework that the company evaded or resisted, including recruitment, registration and phthisis employment rules.
Budeli et al. (2008)	Mines and Works Act 12 of 1911; Native Labour Regulations Act 15 of 1911; Native Land Act 27 of 1913; Natives (Urban Areas) Act 21 of 1923	1911-1923	Used to show the colour bar, the ban on strikes by blacks, land reservation and the control of black labour in the early segregation period.
Crush and James (1995a)	Native Labour Regulation Act, Mines and Works Act (1911), Natives (Urban Areas) Act (1923), Mozambique Convention (1928)	1911-1928	Legislative entrenchment of migrancy and the colour bar.
Crush and James (1995b)	Union legislation: Native Labour Regulation Act and Mines and Works Act (1911); related Acts	1911-1930s	Shows the legal entrenchment of migrancy and the colour bar as a political compromise.
Davies et al. (1976)	Mines and Works Act 1926	1926	Evidence of statutory colour bar concession to white miners.
Houghton and Dagut (n.d.)	Mines and Works Act, No. 12 of 1911	1911	Shows the entrenchment of white certificated and blasting roles and exclusion of coloured persons.
Jeeves and Crush (1992)	Legislation: Native Labour Regulation Act and Mines and Works Act (1911), Natives (Urban Areas) Act (1923), Native Lands Act (1913)	1911-1923	Used to show the political compromise entrenching migrancy and the colour bar.
Lundahl (1982a)	Mines and Works Regulation Act of 1911 (color bar in mining)	1911	Cited as the legal origin of the color bar and job reservation for whites in mining, illustrating how white wages were set.
Lundahl (1982b)	Mines and Works Regulation Act of 1911 (color bar in mining)	1911	Cited as the legal instrument that reserved mining jobs for whites, illustrating how white wages and job reservation arose historically.
Murray (1995)	Union legislation: Act 15 of 1911 and Act 22 of 1913; Minister for Native Affairs' May 1913 prohibition north of 22 degrees South	1911-1913	Prohibition on recruiting 'tropical natives' is argued to have driven clandestine migrants to illicit recruiters.
Phakathi (2012)	Mines and Works Acts of 1911 and 1926 (job reservation/colour bar)	1911, 1926	Described as the legal basis of the job colour bar reserving skilled work for whites.
Pirie (1993)	Legislation: 1911 Native Labour Regulation Act; 1913 Immigrants' Regulation Act	1911-1913	Establishes the legal geopolitical limits on recruiting that constrained rail use.
Turrell (1986)	Native Labour Regulation Act of 1911	1911	Cited as the law banning recruiting on the Rand, which underlies the WNLA police boy's pursuit of the workers in the anecdote.