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Title: | Reactions to the State: The Impact of Farm Labour Policies in the Mid-Eastern Transvaal, 1955-1960 |
Author: | Schirmer, Stefan |
Year: | 1994 |
Periodical: | South African Historical Journal |
Issue: | 30 |
Pages: | 61-84 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | apartheid agricultural workers Politics and Government Labor and Employment History and Exploration Ethnic and Race Relations Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02582479408671782 |
Abstract: | This article examines the application of the pivotal apartheid policies of the period 1955-1960 to white farming districts in South Africa. These policies differed from the previous, more cautious State interventions, because they intended to impose State control over every aspect of African employment. However, despite the extent of the promised control the new policies were still shaped and, to some extent, undermined, by the same processes of white division and African resistance that had affected every other farm labour policy in South Africa. The article extends D. Posel's view (1991) of apartheid, as a process shaped both from above and below, to farm labour policies. Specifically, it examines the relationship between labour tenant farmers and the apartheid State, and how this relationship affected, and was affected by, the resistance of African labour tenants. The article concentrates on a relatively small agricultural area called the mid-eastern Transvaal, where labour tenant farming predominated. Ref. |