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Industry and Trade

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Kind newspapers periodicals
Producer FCI / manufacturers' monthly
Coverage 1954-1970
Works using it 2

Debates

Debate Works
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 2
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 1
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining 1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 1
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Coupe (1990) Industry and Trade (journal of Federated Chamber of Industries/Transvaal industrialists), 1954-1959 issues incl. Marx address April 1958 (May 1958 p. 40) and Wakeley-Smith address 1954-1959 Establishes industrialists' complaints that influx control and job reservation hampered productivity, and the liberal-business editorial line.
Torchia (1988) Industry and Trade (monthly magazine for manufacturers, Cape Town), issues 1960-1970 1960-1970 Editorials and articles are quoted to show manufacturers' shifting views on the colour bar, education, labour productivity, markets and political reform, and the 'economic' vs 'political' dichotomy.