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SA Commerce and Manufacturers' Record / Industrial South Africa

Literature › Primary sources

Kind newspapers periodicals
Producer Cape Manufacturers' Association / trade press
Coverage 1907-1926
Works using it 3

Debates

Debate Works
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure 3
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis 1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Bozzoli (1975) South African Commerce and Manufacturers' Record (SAC), 1907-1918, later Industrial South Africa and Industrial and Commercial South Africa 1907-1925 Main source for the manufacturing ideology: editorials, speeches and articles show who the ideologists were and what ideas they offered manufacturers.
Lumby (1974) Newspapers and trade periodicals (Cape Times 1916-1921; South African Commerce and Manufacturers' Record; Industrial South Africa; Commercial and Industrial Gazette; Johannesburg Star) 1890-1931 Used for ministerial statements when Hansard unavailable, manufacturers' complaints and industry conditions.
Schirmer (2008) Industrial and Commercial South Africa / Industrial South Africa (trade periodical), 1921-1926 1921-1926 Source of descriptive accounts of industry histories, firms, factories and local industrial prospects (printing, milling, cement, Vereeniging, Estcourt, motor).
Schirmer (2008) South African Commerce and Manufacturers' Record (1913-1922) 1913-1922 Source for firm profiles (Burmeister candles, Melachrino tobacco, Fatti macaroni, Port Elizabeth manufacturing) and the 1917 British Trade Review quote.