Labour and the Decolonization Struggle in Trinidad and Tobago

ISBN-13: 9781137462329 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 235 str.

Jerome Teelucksingh

Opis

Labour and the Decolonization Struggle in Trinidad and Tobago incorporates class analyses and assessments of worker affiliation as it relates to organization into occupational categories. There is also consideration of the impact of gender and religion on the working class during the colonial era. This book is an in-depth analysis of the structure and functions of Trinidad and Tobago's early Labour organizations and trade unions and their British and international linkages. The study focuses on the period from the 1920s to 1950 and includes the role of the Trinidad Workingmen's Association (which was later known as the Trinidad Labour Party) in the evolution of working class identity from its rudimentary stages to the subsequent rise of the new trade unionism of the post-1937 era.

Recenzje

"This book begins in the late nineteenth century and traces the organized labor movement in Trinidad and Tobago up until the postwar era and the origins of the shortlived British West Indian Federation. ... Teelucksingh does raise promising questions and evidence that should create avenues for future analysis, documentation, and study. ... this would be a place to develop broader arguments and connect his story to a longer historiography of labor mobilization and activism within the Caribbean." (Jana Lipman, Labor Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, Vol. 13 (3-4), 2016)

Spis treści

Introduction: Labour in the Nineteenth Century 1. The Pioneers: Organised Labour 1894-1920 2. Early Years: The Trinidad Workingmen's Association 3. Involvement of Labour in Politics 1925-1938 4. Labour's voices in the Legislative Council 1925-1938 5. Rise of the Trinidad Labour Party 6. Demands for Self-Government and Federation Conclusion

O autorze

Jerome Teelucksingh is a Lecturer at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago. His academic publications include Caribbean-Flavoured Presbyterianism, Caribbean Liberators and Caribbean Empire.