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South African Labour Bulletin

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Kind newspapers periodicals
Producer SALB
Coverage 1974-1999
Works using it 14

Debates

Debate Works
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy 10
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor 3
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 2
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 2
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 1
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining 1
Data reliability and econometric method 1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Beittel (1995b) Markham & Matiko (1987), 'State of the Unions', South African Labour Bulletin; industrial relations consultant's estimate of days lost incl. stay-aways 1986 Alternative estimate of 1986 working days lost, at least three times the official 1.3 million, used to discredit the official series' claimed coverage of political strikes.
Crush (1986b) Labour press and periodicals on mine unrest and dismissals (Golding, South African Labour Bulletin 1985) 1985 Documents mass dismissals at Vaal Reefs in April 1985 and the industry response to NUM organization.
Crush (1986c) Golding, labour bulletin articles on mine struggles and mass dismissals (Vaal Reefs, April 1985) 1985 Documents mass dismissals and industry responses to NUM-linked unrest, illustrating how replacement labour may be sourced.
Crush (1989a) South African Labour Bulletin articles on NUM, mass dismissals and strikes (Friedman 1983; Golding 1985; Markham and Mothibeli 1987; 1987 congress reports) 1983-1987 Used for the NUM's founding, the 1987 strike, mass dismissals, and the union's 1987 congress resolutions.
Fine (1992) Bibliographic Note: Civil society, trade union and nationalist literature (e.g. South African Labour Bulletin, Work in Progress, South African Review, Transformation) 1979-1991 Listed as background reading for the paradigms of neo-classicism, neo-marxism, trade union left and civil society; no data drawn from them.
Horner and Kooy (1980a) South African Labour Bulletin articles (Kirkwood, Plaut, Prior, Daily News cited in SALB 1(7)) 1974-1977 Supplementary accounts of 1974 incidents and of mine conditions such as hoisting delays.
Lewis (1990) South African Labour Bulletin (established 1974) 1974 onward Cited as a union-linked periodical set up to record union struggles, which supports the argument that labor history is tied to the labor movement.
Macun and Frost (1994) South African Labour Bulletin 17.1 and The Cape Times 19/10/1992 reports of COSATU membership decline 1992-1993 Cited as recent reports of COSATU membership decline, interpreted as short-term fluctuation.
Macun and Frost (1994) Von Holdt (1991) 'COSATU Congress', South African Labour Bulletin 16.1, COSATU membership figures 1990-1991 1990-1991 Source of the 36% COSATU affiliate membership growth for 1990-1991.
Maree (1985) South African Labour Bulletin articles and Labour Monitor Group report (e.g. Baskin on 1981 East Rand strike wave; Lambert and Lambert 1982; Labour Monitor Group 1985) 1976-1985 Provide strike counts and causes in 1981-82 (50 strikes in 1981; 62% of 1982 strikes at union-organized firms) and the November 1984 stayaway.
Maree (1993a) Labour Bulletin Correspondent 1991 and Bilateralism Review 1992 (Mining Summit) 1991-1992 Describes the Mining Summit, NUM proposals and slow progress of the Steering Committee.
Maree (1993b) Labour Bulletin Correspondent 1991 and Bilateralism Review 1992 on the Mining Summit 1991-1992 Describes the NUM-initiated Mining Summit, its proposals, and the slow progress of its working groups.
Mohamed (1991) South African Labour Bulletin (SALB) items: Memo by FOSATU 8/11/79; Critique of the Wiehahn Commission 1979; Vol 3 No 4 1977; Vol 15 No 1 1990 1977-1990 Used for the response of craft unions to Wiehahn, Siemens' alleged encouragement of an African union, and training legislation.
Von Holdt (2002a) Press and periodical reports of ungovernability episodes: SA Labour Bulletin (Mtshelwane 1994; 1996 'Amplats') and Business Day (21 Nov 1997; 20 July 1999) 1994-1999 A sample of episodes of rank-and-file revolts against unions used to suggest wider erosion of SMU in the transition.
Von Holdt (2002b) SA Labour Bulletin articles (Mtshelwane 1994; 'Amplats: An Avoidable Tragedy?' 1996) and Business Day (21 Nov 1997; 20 July 1999) 1994-1999 Provides a sample of episodes of rank-and-file 'ungovernability' during the transition as suggestive evidence of SMU erosion.