The Making of the Black Working Class in Britain

Ron Ramdin

ISBN 10: 1786630656 / ISBN 13: 9781786630650

Published by Verso, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Making of the Black Working Class in Britain
• Publisher: Verso
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1786630656
• ISBN 13: 9781786630650
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Politics
  • British History

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Ron Ramdin is a historian, biographer and novelist. His previous books include Paul Robeson:The Man and His Mission, The Other Middle Passage and From Chattel-slave to Wage-earner: History of Trade Unionism in Trinidad and Tobago.