Masters and Servants Acts

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	legislation gazette
Producer	Colonial and Union legislatures
Coverage	1856-1974
Works using it	2

Debates

Debate	Works
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	2
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	2
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry	1
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	1
Coloured Labour Preference policy in the Western Cape	1
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	1
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Lucas (1987a)	South African legislation: Master and Servants law, Section 10 rights, ban on TEBA recruiting in White Farm Areas	to 1978	Institutional features shaping model specification (desertion ban, Section 10 preference, recruitment restrictions).
Murray (1987)	Masters and Servants Act (local enforcement)	early 20th century	Cited as legislation whose local enforcement was facilitated by weakened black tenant bargaining position.