TUCSA), Wits Historical Papers¶

Literature › Primary sources


Kind	union or movement records
Producer	TUCSA / SATUC / Trades and Labour Council
Coverage	1925-1986
Works using it	5

Debates¶

Debate	Works
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	4
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	2
Black trade unions: growth, wage effects, Wiehahn and strategy	2
Did the apartheid economy fail? Growth, productivity, investment and the post-1970s crisis	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 Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA 2), Church of the Province of South Africa Archive, William Cullen Library, Wits	1955-1959	Correspondence and NEC minutes on Yster y Staal, the Labour Department rebuke and the Confederation of Labour episode.
Coupe (1995)	Records of the Trade Union Council of South Africa, 1955-1986 (TUCSA2), William Cullen Library, University of the Witwatersrand (files Ab 4.2.59, Ab 4.2.60, Ab 4.2.85, Da2, Dba 35.1, Cal.1, Ae2, Db2.9 etc.)	1955-1986	Correspondence, memoranda and minutes document union rivalries, apprenticeship disputes, the motor industry (MIEU/MICWU), the RTEAWU and SAEWA, and TUCSA's internal tensions.
Coupe (1995)	TUCSA, Proceedings of 8th Annual Conference, East London, March 1962	1962	Records the AEU's dissent on admitting African unions.
Crankshaw (1990)	TUCSA records, Church of the Province of South Africa Archives, University of the Witwatersrand (AH 1426), incl. Conference proceedings, correspondence with AUBTW and ASW, Government Legislation (Da 38)	1947-1969	Evidence of union complaints about undercutting, internal splits over job reservation, and relations with TUCSA.
Lewis (1984b)	TUCSA Archive (TUC/TLC/SATUC records): conference minutes 1925-57, NEC minutes, correspondence, memos, monthly reports	1925-1958	Establishes chronology, affiliation numbers, card votes, motions on African unions and the breakup of the TLC; basis for Appendices A-E.
Moodie (1986)	Tusca (Trades and Labour Council) Papers, University of the Witwatersrand Special Collections, Dc 18	1943	Gives AMWU membership of about 1800 at its May 1943 affiliation application.