Government strike statistics, National Manpower Commission

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	official statistical series
Producer	National Manpower Commission / Department of Manpower
Coverage	1910-1985
Works using it	2

Debates

Debate	Works
Data reliability and econometric method	2
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor	2

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Beittel (1995a)	South African government strike statistics (number of strikes, workers involved, working days lost), 1910-1985, in National Manpower Commission, Certain Aspects of Strikes in South Africa, RP 113/1986, Annexure C, Table 1	1910-1985	Supplies the days-lost, strikes and workers-involved series from which wave-years are calculated and compared with the WLG newspaper indicator.
Beittel (1995b)	Government strike statistics (number of strikes, workers involved, working days lost), 1910-1985, in National Manpower Commission, Certain Aspects of Strikes in South Africa, RP 113/1986, Annexure C, Table 1	1910-1985	Main quantitative series of strikes, used to compute wave-years by the Shorter-Tilly and days-lost methods and to compare with the WLG newspaper indicator.