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Job reservation provisions and determinations (ICA s.77 etc.)

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Kind legislation gazette
Producer South African government
Coverage 1951-1984
Works using it 6

Debates

Debate Works
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 5
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 4
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination 2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 1
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining 1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Crankshaw (1990) Native Building Workers Act (No. 27 of 1951) and Proclamations and Regulations thereunder 1951-1955 Establishes the legal content of the Act, including exemptions that let contractors employ Africans on skilled work.
Kantor and Kenny (1976) Statutory job reservation (instituted 1956) and pass law contraventions, referred to without citation 1956 onwards; post-war Referenced in general terms to argue that job reservation lost significance and pass offences reveal labour market pressure; no figures given.
Mariotti (2009a) Industrial Conciliation Act of 1956 (incl. Section 77 job reservation) 1956; Section 77 implemented 1959 Establishes the institutional mechanism by which white unions and employers negotiated job reservation, and anchors the time dummies in the regression.
Mariotti (2009b) Industrial Conciliation Act of 1956 (including Section 77 job reservation) 1956- Institutional basis for white control over racial job allocation and the timing dummies used in the manufacturing regression.
Mariotti (2010) Government Gazette 1961-1979 (Job Reservation Determinations) 1961-1979 Source for Table 1 listing the 28 job reservation determinations, with jobs affected, exemptions and cancellations.
Moll (1991a) Apartheid legislation: job reservation laws and Factories Act provisions on separate facilities 1950s-1984 Establishes legislative origins of occupational and workplace discrimination and subsequent loosening.