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Mozambique Convention 1928

Literature › Primary sources

Kind legislation gazette
Producer South African and Portuguese governments
Coverage 1922-1942
Works using it 2

Debates

Debate Works
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 1
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking 1
Historiographical approaches 1
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 1
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Breckenridge (1995) Convention regulating Mozambican recruitment, Article 26 (1928) and Portuguese legislation of 1922 on foreign currency 1922-1928 Shows Portuguese insistence on payment in gold and confiscation of South African paper currency.
James (1987) Mozambique Convention of 1928 (recruiting quotas) 1928-1942 Sets the upper and lower limits on Mozambican recruits, which constrained foreign labour as compensation for the domestic shortfall.