Industrial Wages

Industrial council wage rate agreements from the SALDRU (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit) collection.

Files

828 CSVs in wages/industrial_council/

Coverage

Two main series:

• wagerates1-18.pdf (1973-1983) → 537 CSVs
• ICWR1-11.pdf (1978-1988) → 288 CSVs

Content

Individual wage determination records specifying:

• Industry/sector
• Occupation/grade
• Wage rates (minimum, actual)
• Geographic region
• Effective dates

Research Use

• Wage-productivity analysis across sectors
• Union bargaining power studies
• Sectoral labor market segmentation under apartheid

Provenance

• Source: Industrial council wage rate agreements (SALDRU series)
• Digitization: Completed November 2025
• Tracking: wages/industrial_council/digitization_progress.csv
• Source PDFs: raw_archives/05_labor/industrial_wages/