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No Women Jump Out!: Gender Exclusion, Labour Organization and Political Leadership in Antigua 1917-1970
Christolyn A. Williams
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This book aims to provide a history of twentieth-century labour in the British colony of Antigua and Barbuda. It documents the labour and class struggles between landowners and peasants both before and after the legalization and formation of trades and labour unions in 1940. It exposes the political and racial dynamics of British colonialism in the eastern Caribbean as never before. The racial dynamics are evident between white colonial administrators, landowners and mill and factory owners, as they struggled to maintain control over a black and coloured population in a changing world. The long overlooked history of the ... Read more
This book aims to provide a history of twentieth-century labour in the British colony of Antigua and Barbuda. It documents the labour and class struggles between landowners and peasants both before and after the legalization and formation of trades and labour unions in 1940. It exposes the political and racial dynamics of British colonialism in the eastern Caribbean as never before. The racial dynamics are evident between white colonial administrators, landowners and mill and factory owners, as they struggled to maintain control over a black and coloured population in a changing world. The long overlooked history of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Trade Unions Past, Present and Future
Condition
New
Number of Pages
238
Place of Publication
Pieterlen, Switzerland
ISBN
9783034308632
SKU
V9783034308632
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About Christolyn A. Williams
Christolyn A. Williams is Professor of History at the State University of New York and recipient of the SUNY Chancellors Award for Excellence in Teaching. She holds the endowed chair for Global Literature at Westchester Community College. She is the author of biographical sketches of V.C. Bird and Tim Hector in the Encyclopaedia Of African-American Culture and History: The Black ... Read more
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