Official Year Book of the Union of South Africa (Union Year Book)

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	official statistical series
Producer	Union Government / Office of Census and Statistics
Coverage	1925-1956
Works using it	3

Debates

Debate	Works
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	2
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	2
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War	1
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	1
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism	1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Carter (1958)	Official Year Book of the Union of South Africa and Bulletin of Statistics (incl. 1951 census, 1946 census)	1946-1956	Source for marriage statistics, population, and religious census figures, and the basis of the Population Register.
De Kiewiet (1941)	South Africa Official Year Book (Union Year Book) 1932 and 1937	1930s	Used for native maize production, gold output forecasts and expenditure on white versus native education.
Duncan (1990b)	Union Year Book (nos. 8, 9, 25: 1925, 1926-7, 1946)	1925-1946	Source for the content of the Factory Act, inspectorate personnel, application date of the 1941 Act and its segregation regulations.