CSS South African Labour Statistics

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	official statistical series
Producer	Central Statistical Service
Coverage	1970-1992
Works using it	2

Debates

Debate	Works
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure	1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	1
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Fine and Rustomjee (1996)	South African Labour Statistics (1990)	1970-1989	Provides mining and manufacturing employment series to compare conventional and MEC-based sector employment.
Frost (1993)	CSS South African Labour Statistics (incl. monthly manufacturing employment survey and Manufacturing Census), 1992 and various years	1973-1992	Employment series (non-agricultural, manufacturing, food/beverage/tobacco, by race) as denominators for union density.
Frost (1993)	Industrial Council agreements statistics (CSS Labour Statistics 1984, 1991, 1992)	1970-1991	Number of councils, agreements and employees covered, used to show decline then jump in coverage.