COSATU membership estimates (Baskin and others)
Literature › Primary sources
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| Kind |
union or movement records |
| Producer |
COSATU |
| Coverage |
1985-1993 |
| Works using it |
4 |
Debates
Works using this source
| Work |
As cited |
Period |
How used |
| Frost (1993) |
Cosatu Congress membership figures (via Baskin 1992, SALB, Andrew Levy Annual Reports 1990/1991, SALDRU/SALORU Trade Union Directories, CASE Cosatu shop steward survey) |
1985-1992 |
Primary basis for Cosatu and affiliate membership series, density and growth calculations, cross-checked against DOM figures. |
| Macun and Frost (1994) |
COSATU, SALDRU and Department of Manpower data on CWIU and FAWU membership (Figure 7) |
1986-1991 |
Compares growth rates of the two oldest COSATU manufacturing unions, CWIU and FAWU. |
| Schultz and Mwabu (1998a) |
COSATU membership estimates, as reported in Baskin (ed.) 1994, Unions in Transition: Cosatu at the Dawn of Democracy |
1985-1993 |
Gives the national union membership totals and the share of workers unionized, and a comparison for industry union shares. |
| Schultz and Mwabu (1998b) |
COSATU membership estimates as reported in Baskin (ed.) 1994, Unions in Transition: Cosatu at the Dawn of Democracy |
1985-1993 |
Gives the union membership totals (400,000 in 1985 to 1,205,612 in 1993) and incomplete industry union shares used to context Table 1. |