National Archives of Zimbabwe files

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	state archives
Producer	Southern Rhodesia administration
Coverage	1914-1940
Works using it	5

Debates

Debate	Works
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	4
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	3
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Higginson (1992)	National Archives of Zimbabwe (NaZim) files, e.g. S138/10, S138/106, S1/14/24, S5441929, S542	1923-1929	Native Commissioner correspondence, criminal records and Watchtower material document migrant routes, land and labour pressure, and millenarian protest.
Jeeves (1987)	Zimbabwe National Archives, Chief Native Commissioner files (CNC S1561, S1542)	1933-1939	Southern Rhodesian officials' views and countermeasures against WNLA, quoted on the labour war and negotiations.
Murray (1995)	NAZ, A3/18/30/20, /22 and A3/18/38/1 (Administrator's Office, Correspondence, Native Affairs, Labour)	1915-1918	Police and NC reports, affidavits and lists of recruiters on Barnard, Diegel and Roux and the joint police response.
Murray (1995)	NAZ, S138 series (S138/22, S138/40, S138/203) and S1561/4, S1542/Li, S482 224/39	1925-1940	1920s-30s evidence that clandestine recruiting for farms and WENLA continued (Reed brothers, Spraggon, Bullock memoranda).
Murray (1995)	National Archives of Zimbabwe (NAZ), N3/22/4 Vols 1-2 (Chief Native Commissioner, Salisbury, on Illicit Recruiting of Native Labour), incl. Notes of a Conference held at Pietersburg, 10 September 1918	1914-1923	Main file for narrative of Barnard, NRC/Seelig truce, state responses, and official statements (Stubbs, Cooke, Taylor, Gold).
Yudelman and Jeeves (1986a)	Zimbabwe National Archives, CNC S1561 series (Gemmill, CNC, PM correspondence; 1939 employers conference)	1936-1939	Document Gemmill's negotiations and threats with Huggins and the Southern Rhodesian government's reactions to WNLA expansion.
Yudelman and Jeeves (1986b)	Zimbabwe National Archives, CNC S1561 series (Southern Rhodesia Chief Native Commissioner/Prime Minister files), 1936-39	1936-1939	Documents Gemmill-Huggins negotiations, Rhodesian fears of a 'labour war' and the 1938-39 responses.