The making of the Black working class in Britain

"This is the first comprehensive historical perspective on the relationship between black workers and the changing patterns of Britain's labour needs. It places in an historical context the development of a small black presence in sixteenth-century Britain into the disadvantaged black work...

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Main Author: Ramdin, Ron
Institution:ETUI-European Trade Union Institute
Format: TEXT
Language:English
Published: London 2017
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description "This is the first comprehensive historical perspective on the relationship between black workers and the changing patterns of Britain's labour needs. It places in an historical context the development of a small black presence in sixteenth-century Britain into the disadvantaged black working class of the 1980s. The book deals with the colonial labour institutions (slavery, indentureship and trade unionism) and the ideology underlying them and also considers the previously neglected role of the nineteenth-century black radicals in British working class struggles. Finally, the book examines the emergence of a black radical ideology that has underpinned the twentieth-century struggles against unemployment, racial attacks and workplace grievances, among them employer and trade union racism."
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is_hierarchy_title The making of the Black working class in Britain
language English
physical 630 p.
Paper
publishDate 2017
publisher London
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spellingShingle Ramdin, Ron
Black
history
minority group
trade union
working class
social mobilization
The making of the Black working class in Britain
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title The making of the Black working class in Britain
topic Black
history
minority group
trade union
working class
social mobilization
url https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19287893124910050759-The-making-of-the-Black-workin.htm