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Natives (Abolition of Passes and Co-ordination of Documents) Act 1952 and Native Laws Amendment Act

Literature › Primary sources

Kind legislation gazette
Producer Union/South African Parliament
Coverage 1949-1986
Works using it 4

Debates

Debate Works
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 2
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 2
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 2
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation 2
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 2
Coloured Labour Preference policy in the Western Cape 1
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Chaskalson and Duncan (1984) Blacks (Abolition of Passes and Co-ordination of Documents) Act No. 67 of 1952 1952 Basis for the reference book requirement, fingerprinting and production on demand.
Legassick (1974) Government Gazette, Proclamations and Native Laws Amendment Act 56 of 1949 / Natives Abolition of Passes Act 1952 1949-1952 Traces Nationalist introduction of labour bureaux and simplified passbooks.
Schirmer (2004) Native Laws Amendment Act (1952) and Natives (Abolition and Coordination of Documents) Act (1952) 1952 Establish the labour bureaux and passbook system that controlled the farm labour supply.
West (1982) Bantu (Abolition of Passes and Co-ordination of Documents) Act 1952; Bantu Laws Amendment Act 1964 1952, 1964 Documents pass-production requirements and the origin of Aid Centres.