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Union Statistics for Fifty Years, 1910-1960

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Kind official statistical series
Producer Bureau of Census and Statistics
Coverage 1904-1960
Works using it 25

Debates

Debate Works
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 6
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 6
Data reliability and econometric method 6
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform 5
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis 5
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure 5
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 3
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 3
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 3
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War 2
Historiographical approaches 2
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation 2
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 2
Urban segregation, Group Areas and the apartheid city 2
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 2
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry 1
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking 1
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism 1
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions 1
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy 1
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Bozzoli (1975) Union Statistics for Fifty Years, Jubilee Issue, 1910-1960 1915-16 to 1921 Supplies factory numbers, output value and manufacturing employment by race to show wartime expansion of manufacturing.
Breckenridge (1995) Union Statistics for Fifty Years (Pretoria, 1961) 1910-1960 Supplies the retail price index showing stable or declining prices, wage and money supply figures, and mining revenue 1912-32.
Clark (1987) Union of South Africa, Union Statistics for Fifty Years (1960), Table L34 1939 Total national electricity production in 1939 used to calculate Escom's share.
Fedderke and Simkins (2004) Union Statistics for Fifty Years (Bureau of Census and Statistics, 1960) 1910-1945 Main statistical basis for the 1914-1945 narrative: prices, money supply, exports, gold output, agricultural indices and employment.
Hendrie (1976a) Union Statistics for 50 years 1955-1960 and earlier Source of the 1955 and 1960 counts of farming units in Table 2.
Houghton and Dagut (1973) Union Statistics for Fifty Years (Bureau of Census and Statistics, 1960) 1910-1960 Supplies national output, gold prices, exports and employment figures used in the editors' introductions to Parts 4 and 5.
Houghton and Dagut (n.d.) Union Statistics for Fifty Years (gold output, railway/revenue tables) 1899-1960 Cited in the editors' introduction for Transvaal gold output in 1902-04 and Union revenue and expenditure in 1913.
Lewis (1984b) Union statistics for fifty years, Jubilee issue 1910-1960 (tables G-7, G-8, G-18, L-3, L-6, L-9, L-12, L-15, L-20, L-21, L-25 etc.) 1910-1960 Supplies employment, establishment and output figures for manufacturing by industry and race, and trade union membership, used in Tables I, II, V, XVI and in the text.
Liebenberg (2012a) Union Statistics for Fifty Years: Jubilee Issue, 1910–1960 (BCS 1960) 1910–1960 Source of long-run production, price and economic data, e.g. poultry and egg prices used to correct pre-1947/48 poultry value.
Liebenberg (2012b) Union Statistics for Fifty Years: Jubilee Issue, 1910-1960 (BCS 1960) 1910-1960 Provided price and production data to correct poultry value and other pre-1960 estimates.
Lumby (1974) Statistics for Fifty Years, 1910-1960 (national income, price indices, construction output) 1910-1960 (used for 1912-1939) Gives sectoral contributions to national income (Appendix 2), retail price indices and construction output used to deflate and compare industry growth.
McCarthy (2000a) Union Statistics for Fifty Years (South Africa, 1960), Bureau of Census and Statistics 1910-1960 Supports the claims on relative city populations (Johannesburg overtaking Cape Town; Durban outstripping Pietermaritzburg).
McCarthy (2000b) Union Statistics for Fifty Years (South Africa, 1960), Bureau of Census and Statistics 1910-1960 Source for city population comparisons (Johannesburg vs Cape Town; Durban vs Pietermaritzburg) showing Witwatersrand-led shifts.
Nattrass (1976a) Union Statistics for Fifty Years (employment in agriculture by race, population census data 1911-1951; output and employment series) 1911-1960 (employment series 1911-1951) Supplies agricultural employment by race for census years 1911-1951 used in Tables 1, 2 and A1 to estimate labour flows.
Nattrass (1990) Union Statistics (1960) 1933/4-1947/8 Shows the metal products, engineering and transport equipment group's share of industrial output rising from 19.5% to 30.4%.
O'Meara (1978) Union Statistics for Fifty Years (Pretoria, 1960) c.1910-1960 Supplies the statistics on manufacturing output shares, white and African industrial employment, trade union membership, railway employment, mining earnings and women's employment.
Perkins et al. (2005a) Union Statistics for Fifty Years, 1910-1960 jubilee issue 1910-1960 Source for early GDP deflator inputs (wholesale and retail price indices), population and early physical infrastructure series.
Perkins et al. (2005b) Union Statistics for Fifty Years, 1910-1960 jubilee issue 1910-1960 Historical series for railways, roads, electricity, population and wholesale/retail price indices used to deflate early GDP.
Pogue (2006) Union Statistics 1910-1960 (population census data 1904-1936; retail/consumer price indices) 1904-1936 Population by race (Fig 9.4) and deflators for real price of gold (Table 9.1).
Savage (1984) Union Statistics for 50 Years (Bureau of Census and Statistics, 1960) 1910-1960 Supplementary source for prosecution figures; its 'Bantu Control' conviction series is judged unusable.
Savage (1986) Union Statistics for 50 years, Table F-4 col. 38 'Bantu Control' (Bureau of Census and Statistics, 1960) 1921-1958 Considered as an alternative conviction series but rejected as unclear in coverage and incomplete.
Simkins (1981) Union Statistics for Fifty Years (1960); South African Statistics 1974 and 1978; Handbook of Agricultural Statistics 1904-50; Statistical Yearbook 1964 1904-1978 Source of producer, wholesale and retail price series, livestock numbers and national output used to value reserve production and the subsistence bundle.
Simkins (1981) Wage bill and employment series for African workers in private industry (Union Statistics for Fifty Years; South African Statistics 1974) 1925-1968 Used to compute the ratio of average African industrial wage to reserve agricultural product per five persons.
Simkins (1984a) Union Statistics for Fifty Years, p. G-3 1918-1957 Source of regular and domestic African farm employment to 1957 in Table 3.
Simkins (1984b) Union Statistics for Fifty Years, p.G.3 (regular and domestic African farm employment to 1957) 1918-1957 Source of regular and domestic employment series in Table 3 up to 1957.
Sources of Growth in the... (1990) Union Statistics for Fifty Years, Jubilee Issue 1910-60 1910-1960 Cited for wartime and postwar manufacturing establishment, employment and census data.