Citation¶

Citing the Data Archive¶

If you use these datasets, please cite:

Wilse-Samson, Laurence (2026). South African Apartheid Economy Data Archive. NYU Wagner School of Public Policy. https://github.com/laurencehw/sa-apartheid-economy-data

BibTeX¶

@misc{wilsesamson2026apartheid,
  author = {Wilse-Samson, Laurence},
  title = {South African Apartheid Economy Data Archive},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {GitHub},
  url = {https://github.com/laurencehw/sa-apartheid-economy-data},
  note = {Digitized historical datasets: agricultural censuses, mine labor recruiting, strikes, elections, and more. 1948-1994.}
}

Associated Papers¶

Please also cite the relevant paper if you use data that was prepared for a specific analysis:

1974 Mine Labor Shock¶

Boone, Christopher and Laurence Wilse-Samson (2026). "The Political Economy of Labor Market Shocks: Evidence from South Africa's 1974 Mining Crisis." Working paper.

@article{boone2026labor,
  author = {Boone, Christopher and Wilse-Samson, Laurence},
  title = {The Political Economy of Labor Market Shocks: Evidence from South Africa's 1974 Mining Crisis},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Working paper}
}

Strikes and Sanctions¶

Naidu, Suresh, Sebastien Turban, and Laurence Wilse-Samson (2026). "Striking at Apartheid's Economic Heart: Labor Unrest as Information Revelation in Authoritarian Capitalism." Working paper.

@article{naidu2026strikes,
  author = {Naidu, Suresh and Turban, Sebastien and Wilse-Samson, Laurence},
  title = {Striking at Apartheid's Economic Heart: Labor Unrest as Information Revelation in Authoritarian Capitalism},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Working paper}
}

CITATION.cff¶

Machine-readable citation metadata is available in the repository root as CITATION.cff.

License¶

This work is licensed under CC-BY-4.0.

The underlying source documents (government census publications, TEBA/NRC records) may be subject to separate copyright by original publishers.

Contact¶

Laurence Wilse-Samson NYU Wagner School of Public Policy lw3387@nyu.edu