| Beittel (1995a) |
South African Labour Statistics 1989 (definition of strikes after the 1980s methodological change) |
1980s |
Cited for the changed definition of strike incidents, which supposedly now include sympathy and political strikes; the author doubts this. |
| Beittel (1995a) |
South African Labour Statistics 1991 (strike statistics for recent years) |
c.1986-1990 |
Extends the government strike series to 1990. |
| Beittel (1995b) |
South African Labour Statistics, 1989 (p. 473, redefinition of strike incidents) |
1980s |
Cited for the changed definition of strikes in the 1980s, which is then questioned against the 1986 days-lost figure. |
| Beittel (1995b) |
South African Labour Statistics, 1991 (strike statistics for recent years) |
c.1986-1990 |
Extends the government strike series to 1990 for the wave-year calculations. |
| Heintz (2000) |
Statistics South Africa (formerly Central Statistical Service) labour market, wage, employment, industrial dispute and price index data |
1970-1993 |
Provides labour-cost data for computing sectoral profit rates and the strike counts used in the political unrest index. |
| Hofmeyr (1994a) |
South African Labour Statistics 1987, Table 4.1.1.1 (Central Statistical Services employer sample surveys of remuneration) |
1975, 1984 |
National average wages are used as a benchmark to check the BMR sample averages for plausibility. |
| Hofmeyr (1994a) |
South African Labour Statistics 1990 (SALS 1990), Table 4.1.1 |
1975-1990 |
Supplies real wage growth for Africans and Whites (2,9% p.a. for Africans) and the mining-to-manufacturing wage ratio (70 to 89 per cent) that motivate and support the argument. |
| Hofmeyr (1994b) |
South African Labour Statistics 1987, Table 4.1.1.1 (Central Statistical Services employer sample surveys) |
1975 and 1984 |
National average wage benchmark against which the BMR sample averages are compared. |
| Hofmeyr (1994b) |
South African Labour Statistics 1990 (SALS 1990), Table 4.1.1 |
1975-1990 |
Establishes the rise in real African wages (2.9% p.a.), the fall in White wages, and mining wages rising from 70 to 89 per cent of manufacturing. |
| Kingdon and Knight (1999) |
South African Labour Statistics (CSS, July 1994) |
c.1993 |
Source for the share of formal-sector employees covered by Industrial Councils, Wage Boards and unions in 1993. |
| Macun and Frost (1994) |
SA Labour Statistics '92 and COSATU membership data (manufacturing employment total/white/black; COSATU manufacturing membership and density, Figures 2-6) |
1979-1991 |
Used to compute COSATU density in manufacturing for all and black workers and its rate of change. |
| Macun and Frost (1994) |
South African Labour Statistics 1991 (Central Statistical Services) |
1979-1991 |
Non-agricultural employment figures used as the denominator for union density in Tables 2 and 3. |
| Macun and Frost (1994) |
South African Labour Statistics 1992 (CSS) and COSATU Secretariat Report 1992 |
1991 |
Sectoral employment combined with COSATU affiliate membership to estimate COSATU density by economic division (Table 4). |
| Macun and Wood (2001) |
Central Statistical Services (CSS), South African Labour Statistics (non-agricultural employment series) |
1970-1996 |
Provides the employment denominators for calculating union density in Tables 1, 2 and 4. |
| McCarthy (1988) |
Central Statistical Services, South African Labour Statistics and South African Statistics (1986) |
to 1986 |
Listed as general statistical sources for employment and economic series behind the growth, employment and non-agricultural employment figures. |
| Moll (1991a) |
CSS (various years) real earnings series by race, manufacturing, mining and all non-agricultural sectors |
1960-1988 |
Table 2 documents real earnings by race, showing convergence in the 1970s (white earnings +2 percent vs African +73 percent). |
| Moll (1993a) |
Central Statistical Service (1990) South African Labour Statistics, Table 2.2.1.1 (nonagricultural employment by race) |
1970-1986 |
Employment denominators for strike person-days lost per 1,000 employed by race (Table 2). |
| Moll (1993c) |
Central Statistical Service (1990), South African Labour Statistics, Table 2.2.1.1 (non-agricultural employment by race) |
1970-1986 |
Employment denominators for person-days lost in strikes per 1000 employed in Table 2. |