Garment Workers Union records

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	union or movement records
Producer	Garment Workers Union
Coverage	1923-1966
Works using it	4

Debates

Debate	Works
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	3
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy	2
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis	1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital	1
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Coupe (1990)	Records of the Garment Workers Union of South Africa (Bch3.1, Bch4, Bch8), CPSA, WCL	1954-1958	Evidence on uncontrolled areas, Veka factory conditions, worker letters and the Germiston meeting with Du Pisanie.
Coupe (1995)	Records of the Garment Workers Union, Dac3.6.8 (R. Kraft, Analysis of Work done by African Affairs Committee, 1966)	1966	Assessment of the TUCSA African Affairs Committee's work.
Lewis (1984b)	Garment Workers' Union (GWU) Archive and Witwatersrand Tailors' Association minutes	1923-1958	Evidence on factory section growth, parallelism, Coloured No. 2 Branch conflicts and the Germiston nationalist revolt.
Moodie (1986)	Garment Workers Union Papers, Wits Special Collections, Dbc 2.1: transcript of evidence at trial of J.B. Marks and others, 2/9/46	1946	Evidence on Marks's report-back procedures before the strike.