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Author Palmer, Colin A., 1944-2019.

Title Freedom's children : the 1938 labor rebellion and the birth of modern Jamaica / Colin A. Palmer
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]

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Contents Jamaica in 1938 -- The labor rebellion -- Race and the colonial imagination -- Looking back, moving forward -- Bustamante, unionism, and the politics of performance -- Bustamante and the politics of power -- Challenging power and facing the consequences -- Constitutional change -- Party politics
Summary This is a comprehensive history of Jamaica's watershed 1938 labor rebellion and its aftermath. The author argues that, a hundred years after the abolition of slavery, Jamaica's disgruntled workers challenged the oppressive status quo and forced a morally ossified British colonial society to recognize their grievances. The rebellion produced two rival leaders who dominated the political life of the colony through the achievement of independence in 1962. Alexander Bustamante, a moneylender, founded the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union and its progeny, the Jamaica Labour Party. Norman Manley, an eminent barrister, led the struggle for self-government and with others established the People's National Party. The author describes the ugly underside of British colonialism and details the persecution of Jamaican nationalists. He sheds new light on the nature of Bustamante's collaboration with the imperial regime, the rise of the trade-union movement, the struggle for constitutional change, and the emergence of party politics in a modernizing Jamaica
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Labor -- Jamaica -- History -- 20th century
Labor unions -- Political activity -- Jamaica -- History -- 20th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
Labor
Labor unions -- Political activity
Politics and government
Jamaika -- Arbeiteraufstand 1938
SUBJECT Jamaica -- Politics and government -- To 1962. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069317
Jamaica -- History -- To 1962. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069311
Subject Jamaica
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781469615301
1469615304