War Measures and National Security Regulations (1942-1945)

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	legislation gazette
Producer	Union government
Coverage	1941-1956
Works using it	3

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Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Nattrass (1990)	War Measures Nos 9, 145, 38, 69, 80 of 1942/1945 and War Measures Further Continuation Act 1948; Factories, Machinery and Building Works Act 1941; Industrial Conciliation Act 1956; Native Labour (Settlement of Disputes) Act 1953	1941-1956	Establishes the legal constraints on strikes, wages, overtime and job reservation that shaped relative white and black wage outcomes.
Spandau (1972)	War Measure No. 38 of 1942, Government Gazette No. 3058, 22 May 1942	1942	Source for the regressive cost-of-living allowance scale used in the worked example of wage-gap compression.
Wilkins and Strydom (1978)	Proclamation No. 255 under the National Security Regulations, December 15 1944	1944	Legal basis of Smuts's order that civil servants resign from the Broederbond.