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Fueling development : how Black radical trade unionism transformed Trinidad and Tobago /

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"Fueling Development is a timely analysis of how working-class mobilization generated long-run economic and social development in Trinidad and Tobago. Zophia Edwards brings the Black Radical Tradition front and center in development sociology to explain post-independence success in oil-rich Tri...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Edwards, Zophia (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2025.
Subjects:
Labor unions > Trinidad and Tobago > History.
Labor movement > Trinidad and Tobago > History.
Labor disputes > Trinidad and Tobago > History.
Trinidad and Tobago > Race relations.
Syndicats > Trinité-et-Tobago > Histoire.
Mouvement ouvrier > Trinité-et-Tobago > Histoire.
Travail > Conflits > Trinité-et-Tobago > Histoire.
Table of Contents:
  • Proletarianization, Race Making, and Capital Accumulation, 1498-1914
  • The 1919 Uprising and the Emergence of Liberation Unionism
  • The 1937 General Strike and the Deepening of Liberation Unionism
  • Decolonization and Fortuitous Failures
  • Postindependence Resurgence of Liberation Unionism
  • Comparing Worker Movements