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Survey of Race Relations in South Africa (annual)

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Kind official statistical series
Producer South African Institute of Race Relations
Coverage 1951-2001
Works using it 25

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Debates

Debate Works
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 6
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 6
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy 5
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement 4
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 3
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination 3
Living standards, health and social policy 3
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 2
White electoral politics, delimitation and party systems 2
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor 2
Education, Bantu Education and skills 1
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining 1
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 1
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation 1
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 1
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption 1
Resistance and liberation movements 1
Urban segregation, Group Areas and the apartheid city 1
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Anglin (1995) Race Relations Survey 1992/93 (South African Institute of Race Relations) 1992/93 Source for Mandela's turn to the UN after Boipatong.
Bendix (1989) Survey of Race Relations (SAIRR) education expenditure and pupil-teacher ratios, 1982/83 1982-1983 Demonstrates racial inequality in per capita education spending and pupil-teacher ratios (Tables 10, 11).
Christopher (1991) South African Institute of Race Relations (1954), Survey of Race Relations 1951-52 1951-52 Source for the estimate that about half the Coloured, Asian and Black populations of Durban faced removal versus 2.4% of Whites.
Christopher (1991) South African Institute of Race Relations (1985), Survey of Race Relations in South Africa 1984 to 1984 Source of the numbers of families displaced under the Group Areas Act by race and province (Table 3).
Cobbe (1986) Average annual cash wage for all black gold-mine workers (current and 1970 Rand), from SAIRR Survey of Race Relations and Lipton, 'Men of Two Worlds' 1966-1982 Documents rapid real wage rises in the 1970s used to explain the Golden Seventies and migrant supply.
Cobbe (1986) South African official data on registered legal non-mine foreign African workers (SAIRR Survey of Race Relations 1983, p. 137) 1977-1983 Shows decline in legal non-mine Basotho workers, with construction etc. rising 1982-83 and agriculture falling.
Crush (1989a) South African Institute of Race Relations, Annual Survey (1985), recognized NUM membership by mining group, August 1985 (Table 1) August 1985 Shows that over 80 per cent of recognized NUM members on the goldfields worked on Anglo American mines, and that union density varied sharply by mining group.
Crush (1989b) South African Institute of Race Relations, Annual Survey (1985), p. 199 August 1985 Supplies recognized NUM membership by mining house, showing Anglo American dominance (83%) and near-absence on Gencor mines.
Curtis (1984) Survey of Race Relations in South Africa (SAIRR annual), various years, incl. 1982 edition 1950-1981 Supplies African and white wage series, PDL comparisons, farm in-kind payments, corporate tax figures and beer/liquor profits used in Tables 1-3, 5 and the tax discussion.
Hackland (1980) SAIRR, A Survey of Race Relations in South Africa (1971, 1973, 1974, 1977, 1978 editions) 1971-1978 Source for election results, party finances, unemployment, strike numbers, mine labour origins, capital flows and PFP-Inkatha contacts.
Holland (1988) South African Institute of Race Relations, Survey of Race Relations in South Africa 1982; South Africa Foundation, Information Digest 1987; Innes in Work in Progress 44, 1986 1982-1987 Supports claims on regional trade balance (R828m vs R279m), Lesotho's import dependence and South Africa's GNP and economic superiority.
Hyslop (1987) SAIRR, A Survey of Race Relations in South Africa (1955-6, 1969, 1972, 1975, 1976 editions) 1955-1976 Source for numbers of boards and committees (1956), ethnic reorganisation, Lebowa politics and the Afrikaans medium dispute.
Industrial Relations in South Africa (n.d.) SAIRR, Annual Survey on Race Relations annual, years not specified Listed as a reference series.
Kantor and Kenny (1976) South African Institute of Race Relations, A Survey of Race Relations in South Africa, 1969 1969 Cited for organised industry's and commerce's criticism of the Physical Planning Act as evidence of conflict between employers and the state.
Kok et al. (2006) SAIRR South Africa Survey 2000/01 (legal immigrants and emigrants 1950–2000) 1950–2000 Official count of legal immigrants and emigrants used as second estimate of net migration in Figures 5.3–5.4.
Lichtenstein (2004) Muriel Horrell, Racialism and the Trade Unions (SAIRR, 1959) and SAIRR Survey of Race Relations for 1952-53 1949-1959 Source for African union membership, Native Labour Board disputes, strike prosecutions, and the state of union disunity after 1956.
Maree (1985) Survey of Race Relations in South Africa 1982 (SAIRR) 1982 Used with Central Statistical Services to give the 1980 economically active Black population of 7.7 million and the union density of about 8%.
Mariotti (2012a) SAIRR Annual Surveys (mining wage series 1972-1979) 1972-1979 Shows nominal mining wages rising from R21 to R141 per month, used to size the income shock.
Mariotti (2012a) South African Institute of Race Relations Annual Reports/Surveys 1969-1979 (foreign and domestic mine employment, Table 2) 1969-1978 Documents the fall in foreign mine labour and rise in domestic recruits that defines the labour demand shock.
Mariotti (2012b) SAIRR Annual Surveys: mining monthly wages 1972-1979 1972-1979 Shows the rise in African mining wages from R21 in 1972 to R141 in 1979, which is used to size the income shock.
Mariotti (2012b) South African Institute of Race Relations Annual Reports/Surveys (1969-1979), mine employment tables 1969-1978 Gives the number of foreign and domestic African mineworkers by origin (Table 2), showing the fall in foreign labour and the rise in domestic recruits.
Mariotti (2012c) SAIRR Annual Surveys, mining wage series 1972-1979 Gives the monthly mine wage (R21 in 1972 to R141 in 1979) used to size the income increase from a mine job.
Mariotti (2012c) South African Institute of Race Relations Annual Reports/Surveys (1969-1979), mining employment by origin 1969-1979 Documents the fall in foreign mine workers and rise in South African recruits (Tables 1-2), and mining wages 1972-1979, establishing the labour supply shock.
Massey (1983) South African Institute of Race Relations, Survey of Race Relations in South Africa, 1979 1979 Source for the April 1979 Elandsrand disturbance and dismissals.
Massie (1997) South African Institute of Race Relations, Survey of Race Relations (annual, 1960-1994/95) 1960-1995 Principal source for South African events, statistics, quotations, elections, violence, and economic indicators after 1970.
Peele and Morse (1974) Muriel Horrell, A Survey of Race Relations in South Africa: 1968 (SAIRR, 1969) 1968 Source of population group sizes and Afrikaans-speaking share, and of white university enrolment figures.
Sabbagh (1968) Survey of Race Relations in South Africa 1960 (SAIRR) and Bantu Investment Corporation data 1952-1966 Data on general merchants in the Reserves (1199 to 2373) and on Bantu Investment Corporation loans and purchases of White-owned stores.
Seekings (1990) SAIRR Race Relations Survey 1959-60 and 1980 1959-60; 1980 Cited for Charterston housing stock and the poll in Community Council elections.
Sitas et al. (1984) SAIRR Survey of Race Relations 1981-1983 1981-1983 Cited on divergent claimed membership figures for SAAWU.
Van Wyk (2005) South African Institute of Race Relations, Survey of Race Relations in South Africa / Race Relations Survey (1976-1989/90 volumes) 1976-1990 Supplies dated facts on Soweto 1976, banning orders, state of emergency, constitutional reform, ANC and government events, and the 1990 political chronology.