Labour and Trade Unions, 1930-1962
File
Shelfmark: MSS. Perham 478
Held at the Weston Library
Comprises:
- folder 1 (fols. 1-34) official forms and memoranda, 1930-1941, concerning contracts of service and scales of compensation (fols. 1-8); a summary of East African legislation containing provision for workmen's compensation, 1941 (fols. 9-13); an analysis of registered Africans employed during 1929 and the annual report of the Native Affairs Department, Labour Section, for 1930 (fols. 14-30); and a communication from William Ormsby-Gore (fols. 31-34)
- folder 2 (fols. 1-18) memoranda and reports by unofficial bodies on Kenya labour, including the Kenya Missionary Council Kikuyu Province Sub-committee on Native Registration (Kipandes), 1933 (fols. 1-3); 'African Conscript Labour in Kenya' by Arthur Creech Jones for the Fabian Colonial Bureau, 1942 (fols. 4-7); 'Plantation Labour and Native Welfare', anonymous typescript, [1944] (fols. 8-9); and an extract from the Confidential Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Labour Unrest at Mombasa, 1945 (fols. 10-18)
- folder 3 (fols. 1-28) correspondence with Arthur Creech Jones, Lugard, Lord Cranborne, Sir Arthur [Dawes], and H.R. Tate on labour problems in Kenya, with references to the book that Margery Perham wrote with Elspeth Huxley, Race and Politics in Kenya, 1942-1944
- folder 4 (fols. 1-74) memoranda and reports, 1942-1960, on labour problems in Kenya, including 'The Mombasa Strikes' by Captain Rouse (fol. 1); 'Revised Draft Statement of Policy on Residential Native Labour Problem in Kenya' discussed by Cavendish-Bentinck's committee, 1947 (fols. 2-33); a report to the Governor on unemployment, 1948 (fols. 34-36); 'Forms of Contract' by the Labour Commissioner, 1949 (fols. 37-41); conclusions of the 2nd Inter-African Labour Conference, Élisabethville (Lubumbashi), Jul 1950 (fols. 42-44); report of the Select Committee on Cost of Living Allowances for Government Servants 1952, statistics of African employment (fols. 45-54); notes on statutory minimum wages and ticket contracts (fols. 59-63); and a confidential letter sent by the Federation of Kenya Employers to all its members on intimidation, violence, and sabotage (fols. 65-74)
- folder 5 (fols. 1-20) official press handouts on topics concerned with labour and trade unionism in Kenya, 1947-1955
- folder 6 (unfoliated) labour - press cuttings, 1933-1947
- folder 7 (unfoliated) labour and trade unionism - press cuttings, 1943-1962.
Dates
- Creation: 1930-1962
Extent
7 folders
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MSS. Perham 478
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
Contact:
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Weston Library
Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom
specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk