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| Title: | Treating White Poverty in Interwar South Africa: 'Civilised Labour' and the Construction of Groote Schuur Hospital, 1926-1938 |
| Author: | Phillips, Howard |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Periodical: | South African Journal of Economic History |
| Volume: | 20 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Period: | September |
| Pages: | 109-130 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | labour policy racism hospitals construction industry 1920-1929 1930-1939 Economics and Trade History and Exploration Labor and Employment Ethnic and Race Relations |
| External link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/10113430509511188 |
| Abstract: | Central to the South African State's interwar labour policy was the notion of 'civilized labour' with its preference for White labour. This was part of a package of de facto racially discriminatory measures launched in 1924 by the new Pact government to relieve White poverty and unemployment and uplift unskilled White workers, largely at the expense of their African contemporaries. This article sees the Groote Schuur Hospital construction project in Cape Town (1927-1937) as giving direction to the wider policy of 'civilized labour', which exacted a high price on those banished to the edge of or entirely beyond the racially exclusive circle of 'civilization'. The project's contribution to 'scientifically' proving the economic case for 'civilized labour' in general and the superiority of White over Coloured labour in particular, lent credence to the State's policy of favouring the former against the latter in the employment of 'civilized labour' nationally after 1929. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
