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Work in Progress (incl. WIP strike data)

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Kind newspapers periodicals
Producer Work in Progress
Coverage 1973-1995
Works using it 3

Project holdings

The project holds this source in part. See Strike Panel.

Debates

Debate Works
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining 3
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 2
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 2
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism 2
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy 2
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor 2
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure 1
Data reliability and econometric method 1
Resistance and liberation movements 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Industrial Relations in South Africa (n.d.) Work in Progress (data 1983-1995) 1983-1995 Listed as a source for statistics on strikes and work stoppages.
Kaplan (1983) Work in Progress No. 17, April 1981 ('Inflation and the Working Class') 1981 Cited for rising number of Soweto households below the poverty datum line during growth.
Swilling (1985b) Pillay, 'The Port Elizabeth Stayaway', Work in Progress 37 (1985) 1985 Cited for the competing claims about worker intimidation versus support in the March stayaway.