COSATU policy/training documents and SALB labour movement accounts

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	union or movement records
Producer	COSATU; SALB authors
Coverage	1986-1995
Works using it	5

Debates

Debate	Works
Education, Bantu Education and skills	2
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy	2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	1
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption	1
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Kraak (1995)	COSATU discussion papers (1991a, 1991b) and NUM document (Hermanus 1989)	1989-1991	Union statements used as evidence of persisting discrimination in recruitment, training and qualification inflation on the mines.
Maree (1993a)	Bird 1992b, COSATU Congress 1991 resolution on training	1991-1992	Shows COSATU's decision to join the National Training Board.
Maree (1993a)	Bird and Schreiner (1992) 'COSATU at the crossroads' and Pillay and Webster (1991)	1989-1992	Documents COSATU principles of engagement and scenarios of state-union relations.
Maree (1993b)	Bird and Schreiner (1992) 'COSATU at the crossroads' on principles of engagement	1989-1992	Supports the claim that COSATU has developed principles to safeguard democracy and link negotiation to mass action.
Maree (1993b)	COSATU-Minister of Manpower accord, November 1992, and South African Labour News 4(11) and Special Document 23 November 1992	November 1992	Documents the accord extending labour rights to farm and domestic workers and the SAAU's angry reaction.
Maree (1993b)	Schreiner 1991, Bird 1992b, CALS 1991a/b, Liebenberg 1991 (labour movement accounts of NMC, NTB and labour legislation)	1991-1992	Establish COSATU's objectives and participation in the NMC, the National Training Board and the 1991 Act.
McGrath et al. (2004a)	COSATU position papers (1991) and NTB guidelines (1986, 1990, 1995)	1986–1995	Shows union criticism of the NTS and nominal union representation on Industry Training Boards.
McGrath et al. (2004b)	Cosatu (1991) comments on the NTB/HSRC National Training Strategy; Bird (1991)	1991	Union critique of employer dominance in the NTS and ITB representation.