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| Title: | The role of the labour bureaux in South Africa: a critique of the Riekert Commission Report |
| Author: | Hindson, D.C. |
| Book title: | Working papers in Southern African studies: vol. 3 |
| Year: | 1983 |
| Pages: | 149-172 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | employment services influx control |
| Abstract: | The paper outlines how the Riekert Commission's recommendations for the revision of labour controls and re-structuring of labour bureaux are based on a strategy of divison of the African urban working class. The proposed relaxation of employment and movement controls amongst Africans qualified to remain in the urban areas is linked to the intensification of controls over the disqualified African population: workers and their families from the rural areas. The author argues that state policy is conflict-ridden rather than monolithic, as portrayed in liberal and revisionist writings, and shows how this policy, far from resolving underlying antagonisms, provides a means of containing their effects merely to secure their further extension. Notes. |