ABSTRACT
This chapter distinguishes two different categories of paid industrial labour: skilled permanent, and unskilled temporary, labour. Skilled labour is employed in the workshops of the Native Administration Public Works Department, and comprises blacksmiths, mechanics, carpenters, and bricklayers, i.e. occupations which (with the exception of the bricklayers) are closely associated with the traditional native crafts of the country. Temporary unskilled labour is employed partly in addition to permanent labour in the N.A. The largest contingent of country people among the labourers is, naturally, composed of farmers and farmers ' sons. In a number of cases the reason for becoming a labourer was to obtain money for tax, either for oneself or for one's family. The labourers, unlike the individual craftsmen, can no longer pretend that they belong to the leisured class. If they receive better and more regular pay, they also lose caste.
