The politics of labour in the British Caribbean: the social origins of authoritarianism and democracy in the labour movement

Abstract

Part 1 The origins of organized labour: the social and cultural legacies of colonialism and slavery systems of domination and the politics of freedom the political economy of dependency and depression racial consciousness and class formation the labour rebellions, 1934-9. Part 2 The institutionalization of labour politics: the colonies at war, 1939-45 the Caribbean Labour Congress and the Cold War, 1945-52 authoritarianism in the institutionalization of the labour movement class and ethnicity in the politics of decolonization - comparisons and conclusions.