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Department of Labour (ARB) files

Literature › Primary sources
Kind state archives
Producer Department of Labour
Coverage 1924-1945
Works using it 6

Debates

Debate Works
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 4
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 4
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 2
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure 1
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 1
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy 1
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Clark (1987) SABA, Department of Labour (ARB) files, incl. ARB 567, 570, 571, 1103, 2005 (Iscor Conciliation Board 1937) 1935-1939 Documents the Iscor labour dispute, Conciliation Board minutes, importation allowance and replacement of whites by blacks.
Duncan (1989) Department of Labour file ARB LC1052/282 (1942 milling Conciliation Board) 1941-1942 Shows the 1942 Conciliation Board's composition, wage settlement and Natal African union protests that preceded the 1944 strike.
Duncan (1989) Department of Labour files ARB LC1052/409 (milling dispute 1944), CAD Pretoria 1944-1945 Documents Labour Department delays, Conciliation Board minutes, union and employer correspondence, the arbitrator's award and the department's reaction to the unofficial settlement.
Duncan (1990a) ARB files 1132 and C.F.2/0 (Secretary for Labour, TLC, Parliamentary answer 1939) 1939-1944 Evidence on the TLC complaints, the departmental investigation and factory registration figures (5754 factories, 3597 post-1933), and Walker's statements on the colour bar.
Duncan (1990b) Archive files ARB 1132 and ARB C.F.2/0 (Labour Dept, TLC protest, parliamentary reply 1939) 1939-1944 Used for Walker's colour-bar denial, the TLC's 1939 complaint and the figure of 5754 registered factories.
Jeeves (1987) Secretary for Mines and Industries to the Minister, 21 Oct. 1924 (ARB 1508,1103, Department of Labour Archive) 1924 Quoted memo on tuberculosis among discharged African mine workers and inadequate mine medical examination.
Lewis (1984b) Department of Labour archive files (ARB series, e.g. ARB 210, ARB 1362, ARB 10), Union Archive Pretoria 1924-1930 Documents ASA registration dispute, mass production conference and employers' demands for dilution in the 1920s.