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Debates

Debate Works
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement 4
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy 3
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform 2
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking 2
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis 2
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining 2
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 2
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 2
Data reliability and econometric method 2
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 2
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 2
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions 2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 1
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 1
Historiographical approaches 1
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation 1
Resistance and liberation movements 1
Urban segregation, Group Areas and the apartheid city 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Abedian (1982) Rosmarin ELS & Taylor town planning data on erfs and rents c. 1980 Number of houses and average rent used to impute urban home-ownership value added.
Aron and Muellbauer (2006) ABSA Bank Ltd house price index and annual ABSA survey of land-to-building value ratio 1966–2003 Medium-house price index converts constant-price housing stock to current values; land share calibrated to the ABSA survey.
Beinart (1994) Standard Bank 1988, Finance and Farmers: a financial management guide for farmers 1988 Cited for an explanation of the taxation regime on land improvements and livestock valuation.
Crush and James (1995b) Gold Fields Mineral Services, Gold 1993 (world gold production) 1981-1992 Shows the fall in South Africa's share of world gold production.
Crush and James (1995b) Pathaut autopsy study, National Centre for Occupational Health 1975-1991 Autopsy data used to correlate years of service with TB prevalence.
Gidlow (2008) Standard and Poor's ratings agency commentary on Barclays-Absa 2005 Cited for the expected effect of the Barclays takeover on competition.
Greenberg (1987) W J P Carr, 'Influx Control as seen by an Administrator of Non-European Affairs', SAIRR, 1961 1960-61 Contemporary official observation that urban African families form a favoured class and Johannesburg draws every work-seeker.
Hackland (1980) B. de Villiers, The rebirth of a white political opposition in South Africa (1975) 1975 Source for the composition of the merged Progressive Reform Party in 1975.
Hackland (1980) Progressive Federal Party, Report and recommendations of the Constitutional Committee (Slabbert Report), 26 October 1978 1978 Primary text analysed to show the party's policy shift to address capital's long-term needs.
Hindson (1978) S. Duncan, 'The Central Institutions of South African Labour Exploitation', NUSAS Labour Week, May 1977 1977 Cited as evidence that ministerial closure or restriction of rural recruitment districts has been implemented in some areas.
Hirson (1988) Hirson's 1977 colloquium paper on the alleged bombing of northern Transvaal villages in 1942 1977 The reviewer cites his own earlier paper to say the 1942 bombing claim could not be verified, yet Stadler presents it as fact without a reference.
Holland (1989) Ethical Investment Research and Information Service (EIRIS) reports, 1986-87 (incl. UK Companies South African Pay and Conditions; EEC South Africa Code: the reporting practices of selected UK companies) 1984/5-1986/7 Independent survey of UK firms' pay, used to contradict official British compliance figures and show the lowering of the minimum standard.
Holland (1989) International Campaign Against Banking on Apartheid, Newsletter no. 4 (1987) 1987 Source for Standard Chartered's sale of Stanbic and its continued loan exposure.
Industrial Relations in South Africa (n.d.) Andrew Levy's Industrial Relations Data not specified Listed as a private data source on strikes.
Industrial Relations in South Africa (n.d.) Bendix, Industrial Relations Trend Consultants: Industrial relations review 1983 and Prognosis 1984 1983-1984 Listed as a strike data source; also supplies counts of plant-level recognition agreements vs industrial council agreements.
Macun and Frost (1994) Frost (1993), South African Trade Union Growth 1979-1991, unpublished Honours thesis, University of Cape Town 1979-1991 Source for the CWIU/FAWU comparison and underlying compilation of union growth data.
Macun and Wood (2001) Labour Research Service, Operatives Wages 1987-88 and 1989-90 1987-1990 Cited for the rising proportion of semi-skilled African workers by the mid-1980s.
McCarthy (2000b) Urban Foundation 1990, Urban Debate 2010 1990 Cited as an example of literature assuming metro/non-metro differences drive spatial restructuring.
Minter (1986) Secret Oil Deliveries to South Africa, 1981-1982 (Shipping Research Bureau, 1984) 1981-1982 Basis for estimate that the oil embargo cost South Africa about $2 billion annually.
Overseas Development Institute (1986) Investor Responsibility Research Center (US) data on state, city and university divestment to October 1986 Documents the extent of US portfolio disinvestment by public bodies and universities.
Padayachee (1988) Financial analysts' report 'South African Rand: reasons for the rand's degradation', March 1985 (unspecified authorship) March 1985 Source for money supply growth, the 66% short-term debt figure, and an assessment of South Africa's external finances as chaotic.
Pankhurst (1996) NEPRU unpublished Briefing Papers for National Land Reform Conference, 1991 (Ovambo; Kavango; Kaokoland, Damaraland, Namaland, Hereroland and Bushmanland) 1991 Evidence that communal land was fenced off for individual ranches in Ovambo, Kavango and Hereroland.
Poswa (1994) Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) of the African National Congress 1994 Cited as a policy document showing that workers' rights and worker participation are to be legislated, supporting the case for industrial democracy.
Suttner (2004) Suttner, 'It is Your Mother Who is the Enemy Now!' (unpublished WISER seminar paper, 2003) 2003 (covers post-Rivonia 'lull') Cited for the claim that ANC underground structures persisted after Rivonia, challenging the BC-vacuum account.