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SAIRR Survey of Race Relations

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Kind newspapers periodicals
Producer South African Institute of Race Relations
Coverage 1956-2002
Works using it 4

Project holdings

The project holds this source in part. See Other Datasets.

Debates

Debate Works
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 3
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism 3
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption 3
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 2
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining 2
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis 1
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 1
Resistance and liberation movements 1
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Heintz (2000) Survey of Race Relations (Institute of Race Relations) 1970-1992 Source for prison population and detention-without-trial series used to build the index of political unrest/social conflict.
Standish (1976) S.A.I.R.R. Survey of Race Relations in S.A., 1965 1965 Source for the mining real wage growth rate (8.44% per annum since 1965) contrasted with farm wage growth.
Wittenberg (2003a) SAIRR Race Relations Survey 1976, 1988/89 and South Africa Survey 2001/02 1976-2001 Cited for Transkei repression in 1976, the SADF intervention in Bophuthatswana in 1988, and a municipal official's 2001 complaint on districts.
Wittenberg (2003b) SAIRR Race Relations Survey 1976, 1988/89 and South Africa Survey 2001/02 1976-2001 Cited for repression in Transkei (1976), the Bophuthatswana coup (1988), and municipal complaints about district councils (2001).