The Politics of Labour in the British Caribbean

Abstract

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Part 1: The Origins of Organised Labour -- Chapter 1: The Social and Cultural Legacies of Colonialism and Slavery -- Colonialism -- Labour Coercion -- Authoritarianism -- Resistance -- Dialectics -- Chapter 2: Systems of Domination and the Politics of Freedom -- Coercion and Resistance in the Labour Process -- The growth of peasantries -- The struggle over wages -- The role of the state -- Immigration and indenture -- The political hegemony of the planter class -- Policing and educating the workers -- Social Structures and the Culture of Resistance -- Guyana -- Jamaica -- Barbados -- Trinidad -- Struggles for Freedom -- Chapter 3: The Political Economy of Dependency and Depression -- The Structure and History of the Plantation Economy -- Jamaica -- Guyana -- United States Expansion, New Economic Sectors, and Old Problems -- Social Policies and Political Reforms -- The Question of Labour -- Chapter 4: Racial Consciousness and Class Formation -- Demographic Changes, Migration and Urbanisation -- Class and Race in the Social Structure -- Marcus Garvey and Black Nationalism -- Class Struggle, Class Formation and Early Labour Organisations -- Demobilised Soldiers from the British West Indies Regiment -- Labour Organisations in the 1920s -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: The Labour Rebellions, 1934-39 -- Belize -- St Kitts -- St Vincent -- St Lucia -- Trinidad -- Barbados -- The Bahamas -- Jamaica -- Antigua -- Guyana -- Comparisons and Conclusions -- Part 2: The Institutionalisation of Labour Politics -- Chapter 6: The Colonies at War, 1939-45 -- The Colonial Development and Welfare Act -- The Economic Impact of the Second World War -- The Influence of the United States -- Emergency Powers, Repression and Resistance -- Jamaica -- Trinidad and Tobago.