Adopts a genealogical approach to a small-scale study of Black supplementary schools, extra schooling organized by the African-Caribbean community in the United Kingdom
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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302 p, "History of UFCO's Atlantic coast operations in Costa Rica from perspective of largely West Indian labor force. Examines formation of enclave economy, including role of West Indian labor, subsistence production, and health problems as occasion of worker-company misunderstandings. Also studies workers' cultural and political lives apart from, and sometimes in conflict with, company, and how West Indians and UFCO figured in Costa Rican nationalist thought and politics"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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346 p, Contents: 1. The Search for Origins: Women and the Division of Labour during Slavery and Indentureship -- 2. 'A Woman's Place': Colonial Ideology and the Reality of Women's Work 1898-1938 -- 3. The Politics of Sex, Race and Class -- 4. The Early Labour Movement -- 5. Women and Labour Struggles: 1900-1938 -- 6. The Early Women's Movement -- 7. The War and Post-War Economy and the Rise of the Middle Strata: 1939-1960 -- 8. Post-War Welfare Policy and 'Women's Work' -- 9. The Post-War Women's Movement: 1939-62 -- 10. Responsible Trade Unionism and the Woman Worker: 1939-62 -- 11. Constitutional Change and the New Nationalist Politics -- Chronology of Trade Union Development: 1919-1960
