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Debates

Debate Works
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy 8
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism 5
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 4
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 4
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 4
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement 4
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 3
Resistance and liberation movements 3
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 3
Historiographical approaches 2
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure 2
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform 1
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry 1
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War 1
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis 1
Education, Bantu Education and skills 1
White electoral politics, delimitation and party systems 1
Why apartheid ended: reform, transition and elite bargaining 1
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 1
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals 1
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation 1
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption 1
Urban segregation, Group Areas and the apartheid city 1
Unemployment: causes, measurement and labour market institutions 1
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Anglin (1995) South African Council of Churches memorandum of meeting with State President (31 March-1 April 1992) and church leaders' presentation to Vance (24 July 1992) 1992 Documents early church lobbying for international monitoring.
Bonner (1994) Open Days/Festivals of Popular Culture attendance figures 1981-1990 Attendance numbers used to show the growing popular reach of the Workshop's festivals.
Bonner and Shapiro (1987) TGME file 5EH, SAMWU correspondence (Miners' Union, du Toit; Moyle-Phillips) 1919-1920 Shows the company's refusal of a closed shop and union agreements.
Budeli et al. (2008) Laboria Minutes (14 September 1990) and Labour Relations Amendment Act 9 of 1991 1990-1991 Establishes the tripartite agreement to repeal offensive provisions of the 1988 amendments, later enacted in law.
Callinicos (1990) NECC History Commission, What is History? history pack (1987); Resolutions of the National Consultative Conference on the Crisis in Education (1985) 1985-1987 Documents the NECC's attempt to build an alternative people's history and the state ban on it.
Carter (1958) Party programmes, constitutions, pamphlets and election propaganda (National, United, Labour, Liberal, Federal, ANC, SAIC, Torch Commando) 1919-1957 Used to describe organisation, principles and campaign material; reproduced in Appendices III and IV.
Davenport (1969) Location Advisory Boards Congress records and Institute of Administrators proceedings (Koller presidential address, 1967); author's own observation 1929-1967 Used to show growth of the Congress (under 30 to about 120 municipalities), its disowning in 1956, and the Institute's views.
Drew (1994) Mettler (Baruch Hirson) 1957, It is time to awake! (Carter-Karis Microfilm Collection) 1957 Basis, via Beinart and Bundy, for the hypothesis that 'middle migrants' formed the social base of Rehabilitation protest.
Giliomee (1995) Afrikaner Broederbond document 'Political Values for the Survival of the Afrikaner' (unpublished, c. July 1986) c. July 1986 Illustrates the reevaluation of strategy within the Afrikaner cultural elite toward a new constitution acceptable to the majority.
Gould (1981) Trade union delegation reports and codes (TUC 1973, LO/TCO Swedish 1975, EEC Code 1977, Sullivan Principles, AFL-CIO statements) 1960-1979 Documents Western responses and codes of conduct.
Hilsenrath and Pogue (2012) Proceedings of the Chemical and Metallurgical Society of South Africa (CMSSA) 1894-1899, incl. von Gernet 1894, Williams 1897, Carter 1898 1894-1899 Chronicles the collaborative development of slime treatment and zinc-lead and electrolytic precipitation.
Hyslop (1987) CATU archive, AAS 212 (File: CATU Conferences I), 1957 conference resolution 1957 Shows teachers' resolution that board and committee members should have minimum education.
John (2000) World Council of Churches publications (WCC, The WCC and Bank Loans to Apartheid, 1977; Sjollema, Isolating Apartheid, 1982; WCC Sanctions Mission) 1977-1986 Documents church links, shareholder sell-offs (Hill Samuel) and consequences of the Midland resolution.
Korf (2010) Ossewabrandwag/Afrikaner organisation records: Cradock Agreement, AEK minutes (INCH J.D. Jerling PV 158, D.J. Potgieter diary PV 107, DFM) 1940-1941 Documents the HNP-OB rivalry and Malan's moves to subordinate Afrikaner organisations.
Lewis (1984b) ISTA Archive (published material) and ISTA pamphlets 1936-1978 Used for the ISTA's history, membership and strategy; unpublished records were closed.
Lichtenstein (2004) Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America papers, Local 32 Correspondence, University of Maryland Library 1943 Cited in support of the claim that black officers' responsibility mattered more than titular office in CIO locals.
Lichtenstein (2004) Lucy Mason/Operation Dixie papers, Duke University (microfilm reel 63): letters from CIO Regional Directors (Haigler, Sandefur, Altall, Payton), 1945 May-June 1945 Shows the varied racial practices in southern CIO locals.
Lumby (1974) South African Typographical Union records (Registration of Journeymen 1910; Downes, Printers' Saga) 1881-1934 Journeymen numbers, wage settlements and unemployment in printing industry.
Macun and Wood (2001) TUACC Constitution 1974 1974 Documents the aims of the first coordinating body of independent unions that led to FOSATU.
Maree (1993b) Australian Accord sources: Lansbury and Davis 1987; ACTU 1990; TUTA 1983 and 1988; Bird 1992a; Business Day 25.02.92 1983-1992 Documents the Accord's content and outcomes, such as manufacturing growth, jobs, falling real wages and declining union density.
Massie (1997) American Committee on Africa archives (Amistad Collection, Tulane; active files, New York) 1960s-1980s Documents the organizing, conferences and bank and divestment campaigns of the U.S. anti-apartheid movement.
Milburn and Cole (1957) Australian Labor Party conference and executive records (Mitchell Library, National Library, state party offices) 1901-1950s Located as repositories for Labor Party documents.
Milburn and Cole (1957) Maoriland Worker (1910-1924), New Zealand Worker, Standard; Labour Party annual reports 1906-1955 Listed as the records of party founding, conferences and union events.
Milburn and Cole (1957) South African Labour Party records (Party office, Kerk Street, Johannesburg) 1910-1950s Noted as the location of party records on its early history and decline.
Milburn and Cole (1957) South African Trade Union Council, Memoranda submitted to Minister of Labour (1954-1955) Dec 1954-Oct 1955 Cited as evidence of trade-union pressure on government over the Industrial Conciliation Bill and the Workmen's Compensation Act.
Moll (1993c) Trade Union Council of South Africa (1985) Official Trade Union Directory and Industrial Relations Handbook, pp. 267-81 1984/85 Source of data on the number of industrial councils, their extension to non-parties, and workers covered (Table 1).
Moodie (1986) Xuma Papers (ABX 410609b) 1941 Source for Guar Radebe's 1941 conference calling for a committee to organise African mineworkers.
Morrell (1988) East Middelburg Farmers Association (EMFA) minutes and duplicate letter book; Middelburg District Farmers Union (MDFU) minutes 1920-1929 Documents failed attempts by farmers' associations to obtain labour and their requests to government.
Nattrass and Seekings (2012a) Union and NBC records on clothing union membership and bargaining council registration (SACTWU, NBC website) 1991-2011 Evidence for membership decline and the number of workers registered with the NBC.
O'Meara (1978) Mining Unions' Joint Committee (MUJC) minutes, 1940-1947 1940-1947 Used for T&LC requests regarding the African Mine Workers' Union, MWU member protests over wages, the 1947 strike and white miners' replacement by Africans.
Olivier (1929) Kavirondo Taxpayers' Welfare Association memorandum to Hilton Young's Commission c.1928 Lists men's agricultural and other work to refute the claim that African men are idle.
Olivier (1929) Labour and Socialist International Congress, Brussels 1928, The Colonial Problem 1928 Quoted at length as a charter of demands on colonial labour and land.
Robinson (1994) Notes of meeting taken by Port Elizabeth Anti-Removals Committee, 19 November 1986 1986 Source for residents' appeal to Mundell's paternalistic reputation against 1980s removals.
Roth (1995a) Evidence on the Mine Workers Union and the Council of Mining Unions defending white privilege, 1945-1987 1945-1987 Used to show that the MWU and its allies, rather than the Chamber of Mines, led the defence of the colour bar.
Sato (2012) AFRA Weenen File (AWF), AFRA Resource Centre, Pietermaritzburg (Sosibo papers, TBDA minutes and report, AFRA reports) 1982-1989 Documents the WECOP/Sosibo leadership, the TBDA vs AFRA proposals and the 1988 NPA meeting.
Suttner (2004) Rev. F. Chikane, 'The Origins and Significance of the UDF', Umrabulo (June 2003) 2003 Cited as an example of the 'holding the fort' view that Suttner disputes.
Switzer (1990) Ciskeian Missionary Council, Minutes, October 1925 - November 1951 1925-1951 Cited for the composition and affiliates of the Ciskeian Missionary Council.
Webster (1984) MAWU memo on liaison committees after the Heineman strike 1976 Shows that unions and workers viewed liaison committees as ineffective safety valves.
Webster (1984) Webster and Sitas, Stoppages in the East Rand Metal Industry, FOSATU Occasional Publication No. 3 1981-82 Evidence that rejection of arbitrary management control was the central demand in the majority of 1981 East Rand strikes.
Wotshela (2004) Archives of the Border Rural Committee, East London, Proceedings of Meetings Regarding the Excision of Glen Grey and Herschel, 24-25 April 1975 April 1975 Records the promises made by Deputy Secretary Uys and the compensatory land tours (Released Areas 59, 60, 71, 72).