NUM reports, studies and publications

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	union or movement records
Producer	National Union of Mineworkers
Coverage	1980s-1995
Works using it	5

Debates

Debate	Works
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking	1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	1
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement	1
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy	1
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Crush (1989b)	Cyril Ramaphosa, 'Organizing on the Mines', Address to South African Institute of Race Relations, July 1985	July 1985	Supports claim that NUM in 1985 decided to challenge the whole migrant labour system.
Crush (1992)	NUM, 'Collective Bargaining at Anglo American Mines' (NUM Media and Research Department, 1988), pp. 62-3	1988	Union claim that ID checks in compounds became routine and recorded after the 1987 strike.
Crush and James (1995a)	NUM Final Housing Survey (1990)	1990	Shows affordability barrier to home-ownership scheme.
Kynoch (2000)	NUM documents: Motlatsi 1995 paper 'The History of Violence in the Mining Industry'; 'Reaping the Whirlwind' NUM/Anglo American Gold Division joint study (1986)	1986-1995	Presents the NUM claim that management paid Russians to attack union supporters, which the author weighs against other evidence.
Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Reparation and Rehab... (1998)	NUM report on repression at Anglo American mines	1980s	Evidence that union meetings had to be approved by mine management despite recognition.