Building trade unions records (ASW reports, Hartwell collection, Building Worker)

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	union or movement records
Producer	Building unions
Coverage	1956-1972
Works using it	1

Debates

Debate	Works
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Crankshaw (1990)	Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers Monthly Reports (nos. 422, 424, 426, 447, 449) and The Woodworker (1959-1972)	1956-1972	Evidence on rank-and-file resistance to incentive schemes, undercutting by Africans, regional splits and defection to the WBWU.
Crankshaw (1990)	Hartwell Labour Collection (AD 1456), Building Trade Unions (1.1) incl. ASW Memorandum to Industrial Tribunal, 18 July 1958; Miscellaneous Correspondence (3.9)	1958-1961	Source of union submissions to the Industrial Tribunal and evidence on exemptions and union positions on job reservation.
Crankshaw (1990)	The Building Worker (WBWU/AUBTW periodical), 1961	1961	Reports the replacement of a Pietermaritzburg union delegate and the expulsions of members over job reservation.