SAIRR Race Relations journal / Race Relations News¶

Debates¶

Debate	Works
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation	3
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry	2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
Education, Bantu Education and skills	1
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control	1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	1
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism	1
Resistance and liberation movements	1
Living standards, health and social policy	1

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Bonner (1995)	F. W. C. Buitendag, 'The Organisation of Labour Bureaux by Local Authorities', Race Relations XX (1953)	1953	Cited as one of the less detailed sources corroborating the origin of African workers outside Johannesburg.
Duncan (1993)	Race Relations (SAIRR journal) and Hellmann (ed), Race Relations Handbook (1949)	1937-1949	Evidence of liberal pressure and background data on urban areas and social welfare.
Hyslop (1987)	Race Relations News, February 1969	1969	Source for the 1969 figures of 509 school boards and 4,108 committees involving over 50,000 persons.
Jeeves and Crush (1990)	Contemporaneous investigative literature on farm labour conditions (Ainslie, First, Race Relations Journal articles, SAJE articles, ILO Review on Zululand sugar estates, Native Farm Labour Committee report as reviewed by Marquard)	1931-1959 (plus Ainslie 1973)	Treated as contemporary evidence on farm labour conditions, an important source for the project.
Milburn and Cole (1957)	SAIRR periodical Race Relations, monographs and pamphlets	1935-1955	Listed as the source for opposing views on racial affairs.
Posel (1987)	W.W.M. Eiselen, 'The Meaning of Apartheid', Race Relations XV, 3 (1948)	1948	Supports SABRA's claim that withdrawing African labour would not ruin the economy.
Schirmer (1995)	Rheinallt Jones, 'Farm Labour in the Transvaal', Race Relations, 12, 1 (1943)	1943	Contemporary statement that labour tenancy was the basis of Transvaal farm labour.