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How to Use Black Labour Better – Scarce apartheid-era South African mining industry booklet on labour management, published by General Mining & Finance Corporation. An important primary source for collectors of Africana, mining history and labour history.
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How to Use Black Labour Better is an uncommon South African corporate publication produced by the Labour Department of the General Mining & Finance Corporation Limited during the apartheid era. Intended as an introductory management guide, this 24-page booklet provides a revealing insight into the labour policies, industrial management philosophies, and employment practices adopted by major South African mining companies during one of the country’s most controversial historical periods.
Rather than being a conventional labour management manual, How to Use Black Labour Better serves today as an important primary historical document illustrating how businesses approached recruitment, training, job evaluation, productivity, industrial relations, personnel management, and workplace organisation within the framework of apartheid labour legislation. Chapters discuss attitudes to work and leisure, labour rationalisation, job descriptions, wage structures, personnel administration, housing, industrial relations, performance appraisal, and employee training.
How to Use Black Labour Better was published by General Mining & Finance Corporation Limited with assistance from Bruce Andrews and printed by Frier & Munro (Pty) Ltd, Johannesburg. Originally intended for internal management training, publications of this nature were produced in relatively small numbers and are increasingly difficult to locate.
Today the booklet is collected not as an endorsement of its contents, but as an important historical source documenting South Africa’s industrial, mining, labour and social history. How to Use Black Labour Better will appeal to collectors of Africana, mining history, labour history, apartheid-era publications, industrial management literature, university researchers, historians and institutions seeking original contemporary material for study.
An increasingly scarce piece of South African industrial ephemera that provides valuable insight into corporate labour policy during the apartheid period.
Condition – Very GoodÂ
undated softcover booklet comprising 24 pages. Light handling wear and minor age toning. Previous owner’s name neatly written on the front cover. Internally clean and complete.
