Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Workers, New Unions
… (For example, in 1926 white women were starting on two-rand a week, which was the same wage as black men in the … to justify the miserable wages paid mine workers on the Rand. But this was a false argument, too. In the first place, … them to craft workers. In the furniture industry on the Rand in 1928, for instance, there were 734-apprenticed …