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Wage Act and Wage Board / sectoral wage determinations

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Kind legislation gazette
Producer Wage Board / Department of Labour
Coverage 1925-2009
Works using it 6

Debates

Debate Works
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 2
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions 2
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 1
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 1
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism 1
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination 1
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Davies et al. (1976) Wage Act of 1925 and fair labour clauses (Customs Tariff Act, government tenders) 1925 Documents state mechanisms for promoting white (civilised) labour in private industry.
Duncan (1989) Government Notice No.1222, 21/7/44 (Wage Board settlement, coal distributors) 1944 Gives the final wage settlement for coal distributors' labourers after arbitration.
Kingdon and Knight (1999) Industrial Council and Wage Board minimum wage determinations (clothing industry, 1996) 1996 Illustrates the sub-national, local nature of institutional minimum wages.
Nattrass and Seekings (2012a) Wage Board wage determinations (WD 221 of 1961, WD 471) and ECC sectoral determination no. 4 (2000) 1961-2000 Documents the regulation of clothing wages outside industrial council areas.
Roberts (2009) Sectoral Determination 8 and 13: Farm Worker Sector (BCEA Act 75 of 1997), Government Gazette Nos. 24114 and 25657, and Department of Labour minimum wage rates 2002-2009 Minimum wage level (R5.59/hour, R1 090/month), ten percent cap on in-kind deductions, and housing requirements used to benchmark 2008 survey wages.
Spandau (1972) Wage Act, Act No. 44 of 1937, Sect. 8(e) 1937 Establishes that the civilized-wage principle was replaced by a cost-of-living principle.