Department of Labour / Manpower Annual Reports¶


Kind	official statistical series
Producer	Department of Labour / Department of Manpower
Coverage	1940-1996
Works using it	6

Debates¶

Debate	Works
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy	4
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	3
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis	1
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism	1
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement	1
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination	1

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Industrial Relations in South Africa (n.d.)	Official strike statistics, Department of Manpower	not specified	Listed as the official source of strike statistics.
Macun and Frost (1994)	Department of Manpower annual trade union membership returns (Annual Reports), registered and many unregistered unions	1956-1991	Provides the annual union membership series (total, registered, white-only) used to measure absolute growth and, with employment, density.
Macun and Wood (2001)	Department of Labour, Annual Reports	1980-1996	Source of registered union membership totals for the 1980s and 1990s used to calculate density in Tables 2 and 4.
Mohamed (1991)	Department of Manpower figures on new apprentices registered 1981-1988 (Appendix E)	1981-1988	Evidence of the collapse in apprenticeship registrations as an indicator of deskilling in electrical contracting.
Moll (1993a)	Department of Manpower Annual Reports (person-days lost in strikes)	1970-1986	Days lost in strikes by race, showing black strike activity rising after 1980 as an indicator of union strength.
O'Meara (1978)	Department of Labour Reports 1947 and 1948 (UG 38/49 and 50/51)	1947-1948	Supports the claim that state policy sought to protect the racial division of labour through incentive schemes, female labour and supervisory transfers.
O'Meara (1978)	Department of Labour report, UG 45/1941	1940-1941	Shows the Department's claim that the poor white problem had largely been solved by wartime industrial expansion.