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official_statistical_series: unattributed aggregate series

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Kind official statistical series
Producer Not specified
Coverage 1953-2020s
Works using it 4

Debates

Debate Works
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 3
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis 2
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 2
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement 2
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War 1
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 1
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining 1
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 1
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Barber (1991) Unattributed official statistics on British-South African trade, investment, tourism and GDP/employment (1990) 1982-1990 Provides trade totals (£2.2bn in 1990), tourism figures, the fall in real GDP per capita, and formal-sector job entry rates.
Heintz (2002) Average annual prison population of South Africa (political instability indicator) 1969/1970-1992 One of three component indicators combined by principal components into the index of political instability.
Heintz (2002) Estimated number of persons held in detention without trial under apartheid security laws 1969/1970-1992 Second component indicator of the political instability index, capturing township unrest and repression.
Heintz (2002) Number of recorded strikes in South Africa 1969/1970-1992 Third component indicator of the political instability index, capturing workplace conflict.
Heintz (2002) South African fixed capital stock / rate of fixed capital accumulation series, 1950-2000 1950-2000 Establishes the pattern of high accumulation in the 1950s-60s and decline from the mid-1970s that frames the crisis of accumulation.
Hirschsohn (1998) Figures on detentions under the 1984–88 state of emergency and working days lost to industrial action and political protest (Innes 1992, uncited source for detentions) 1984–1990 Used to show the scale of labour militancy and state repression of union members.
Trapido (1970) Figures on private capital and Industrial Development Corporation investment in border areas, 1960-68 1960-68 Quantifies capital flowing to border industries to support the claim of a new phase of labour repression.