Natal Mercury

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	newspapers periodicals
Producer	Natal Mercury
Coverage	1859-1988
Works using it	3

Debates

Debate	Works
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	2
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	2
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform	1
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	1
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions	1
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Crush (1993)	Natal Mercury, 18 February 1975	1975	Source for Minister Botha's statement that mine recruitment must stay within existing labour controls.
Sato (2012)	Natal Mercury (1967-1971)	1967-1988	Reports farmers' reasons for requesting abolition, evictions, wage levels, cattle buying 'ring', and NAU congress comments.
Sitas et al. (1984)	Natal Mercury, 28/4/1859 and 22/11/1860	1859-1860	Quoted for the colonial justification for importing indentured Indian labour.