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Department of Mines and Industries (MNW) files

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Coverage 1919-1936
Works using it 10

Debates

Debate Works
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 6
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 5
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 5
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 4
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure 2
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Bonner and Shapiro (1987) CAD, MNW 527 2338/20 (Mines and Works file on the 1920 Sabie/Pilgrim's Rest strikes) 1920 Documents the May 1920 strikes and the Transvaal Native Congress's role.
Clark (1987) South African Central Archives (SABA), Department of Mines and Industries (MNW) files, e.g. MNW 717 mm583/23, mm1367/24, mm1288/24 1919-1934 Establishes the Escom-VFPC negotiations over Witbank, Johannesburg and mine contracts, including memos, agreements and Chamber of Mines cables.
Duncan (1990a) Mines Department files MNW MM2489/25 pt.1 and MM2426/22 1922-1926 Evidence of union deputations, Gray's admission that supervision had fallen, Creswell's demands and inspector responses on staff ratios and accidents.
Duncan (1990b) Mines Department files MNW MM2426/22 and MM2489/25 pt.1 (staff ratio disputes 1925-26) 1922-1926 Documents union deputations, Creswell's demands, and inspector Gray's admissions about supervision and misfires.
Jeeves (1987) Transvaal Archives Depot, Department of Mines and Industries Archive (MNW 802/804 2489/25) 1927-1928 Documents Gemmill's tour report introducing the AVS, Neergaard's northern tour report and the Gold Producers Committee statement.
Jeeves and Crush (1992) CAD, Department of Mines and Industries (MNW) 802 2489/25, Pts 2 (incl. Director of Native Labour 1927 letter and Creswell Memorandum 1927) 1927 Shows the government raising the Mozambique limit and Creswell's arguments against foreign labour.
Johnstone (1971) Memorandum of the Under Secretary of Mines and Industries to the Secretary of Mines and Industries, 13 August 1924, Dept of Mines and Industries File MM 1699/24 1924 Supports the estimate of how many white employees lost their jobs after 1922 had been re-employed by 1924.
Schirmer (2008) Central Archive Depot, MNW 729, No MM2057/24, Industry Submission to the Board of Trade and Industry, c1923 c.1923 Evidence on brewing export attempts and on Plywoods (SA) Ltd's founding, pricing and tariff request.
Yudelman and Jeeves (1986a) TAD MNW 804 2489/25 and NTS 2124, NTS 2115 files (Gold Producers Committee, Chamber/Native Affairs meetings, Mines ministers' letters) 1928-1936 Support the claim that WNLA committed itself by the mid-1930s to expensive extension of its northern network.
Yudelman and Jeeves (1986a) Union of South Africa Secretary for Mines Archive (MNW 804 2489/25) incl. Neergaard to Gemmill 21.5.1928 1928 Source for P. Neergaard's 1928 tour report on the recruiting potential of Nyasaland, Northern Rhodesia, Tanganyika and Mozambique.
Yudelman and Jeeves (1986b) Transvaal Archives Depot, Secretary for Mines (MNW) and Native Affairs (NTS) files on tropical recruiting, 1928-36 1928-1936 Archive documents on Neergaard's 1928 tour, Gold Producers Committee statements, and government meetings underpin the northern recruiting strategy.