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Employer and management trade journals (multi-title)

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Kind newspapers periodicals
Producer Employer bodies
Coverage 1920s-1976
Works using it 2

Debates

Debate Works
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 1
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis 1
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation 1
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Coupe (1995) Trade and union periodicals: AEU Monthly Journal, Metalworker, Crucible, Industry and Trade, The Manufacturer, Engineer and Foundryman, Power 1955-1976 Illustrate employer and union rhetoric on white worker inefficiency and racial attitudes.
Posel (1990a) Trade and employer periodicals and other texts: Commercial Opinion (ASSOCOM) 1957-58; R C McLean, How to Use Industrial Native Labour Efficiently (1958); Glass and Ngobo studies; Federated Hotel Association and Master Builders' Association memoranda 1954-1960 Documents employers' stereotypes of tribal versus detribalised workers and categorisation of the urban workforce, and employers' preference for vulnerable illegal workers.