The Alma Jordan Library, The University of the West Indies
Max Beverly Ifill papers
SC96
Table of Contents
- Summary Information
- Biographical/Historical note
- Arrangement note
- Administrative Information
- Related Materials
- Collection Inventory
- Subject Files A-Z
- Trade Unionism
- United Nations Regional Economic Planning Projects: Manuscripts
- Economic and Business Research Information and Advisory Service: Manuscripts and Publications
- United Nations Projects: Publications
- Publications
- Oversized Documents
Summary Information
- Repository
- The Alma Jordan Library, The University of the West Indies
- Title
- Max Beverly Ifill papers
- ID
- SC96
- Date
- 1957-2002
- Extent
- 3.0 Linear feet
- Language
- English
Preferred Citation note
Max Beverly Ifill papers. The Alma Jordan Library, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago.
Biographical/Historical note
Max Beverly Ifill was born in Arouca on 24th September, 1920 to Joseph Irving Ifill and Florencia Aletia Braithwaite. He spent his early childhood years in New Grant (5 miles east of Princes Town) and then moved to Port of Spain. He attended Tranquility Boys’ School and also taught there from 1937 – 1951. He won a scholarship for London School of Economics and then attended the University of Oxford, where he studied Agricultural Economics.
He worked in the Colonial Secretary’s Office as an Administrative Cadet, from the time of Eric Williams’ appointment as Chief Minister in Trinidad and Tobago. He left the Civil service in 1959 and worked briefly with the Trinidad Manufacturer’s Association. From 1961-1965, he became heavily involved in Trade Union activities, advising and writing articles. He was a member of the Industrial Development Corporation and Trade Union’s Congress, Union of Commercial and Industrial Workers, and the Oilfield Workers’ Trade Union. He was employed with the Caribbean Congress of Labour and as such represented Eric Gairy in Grenada between 1964 and 1965. In 1968 he left Trinidad and Tobago to work with the United Nations in Tanzania, Nigeria and the Caribbean and for the Canadian Federal Government in Ottawa. He was UN/ECLAC’s Regional Economic Adviser for the Caribbean for more than four years when he retired in 1980.
He lectured in History, Economics, Economic History and Politics at the Trinidad Polytechnic and the Extra- Mural Department of the University of the West Indies. He is author of many pamphlets on the African Diaspora and spoke on numerous occasions about the development problems which confronted Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribbean. He stated that his main concern was “the urgent need for society to adopt a more spatial approach to development, to establish socio-economic goals which would avoid the polarization of income distribution in the society, and to develop a political system which would permit meaningful participation of the citizenry.”
Max Ifill was also active in politics and was briefly involved in 1966 with the Workers and Farmers Party which was founded by C.L.R. James, Stephen Maharaj and George Weekes.
He passed away on 17th October, 2002 at the age of 82 years.
Arrangement note
The papers are arranged into six series reflecting his various activities. These series are Subject Files A-Z, Trade Unionism, United Nations Regional Planning Projects, Economic and Business Research Information and Advisory Service, United Nations Projects: Publications, and Publications.
Administrative Information
Publication Information
The Alma Jordan Library, The University of the West Indies
St. Augustine Campus868-662-2002 Ext.82132
Conditions Governing Access note
Library use policy applies.
Custodial History note
The collection belonged to Max Beverly Ifill and was donated to the Alma Jordan Library by his daughter Ms. Julie Ifill.
Related Materials
Related Archival Materials note
Oral Pictorial Records Programme (OPReP), The Alma Jordan Library. University of the West Indies. Interview with Max Ifill by Margaret Rouse Jones. OP 25
Collection Inventory
Subject Files A-Z |
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Biographical Data 1961-1980 |
Box 1 |
Folder 1 |
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Caribbean Community: Treaty |
Box 1 |
Folder 2 |
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Correspondence |
Box 1 |
Folder 3 |
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Ephemera |
Box 1 |
Folder 4 |
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Federation |
Box 1 |
Folder 5 |
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Newsletters |
Box 1 |
Folder 6 |
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Newspaper Clippings |
Box 1 |
Folder 7 |
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Occasional Papers |
Box 1 |
Folder 8 |
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Photographs |
Box 1 |
Folder 9 |
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Political Activity (a) |
Box 1 |
Folder 10 |
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Political Activity (b) |
Box 1 |
Folder 11 |
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Political Manifestoes |
Box 1 |
Folder 12 |
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Trinidad and Tobago House Paper No.4 of 1963 |
Box 1 |
Folder 13 |
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Typescripts and Articles: Various Authors |
Box 1 |
Folder 14 |
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Why Not Discussion Group |
Box 1 |
Folder 15 |
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Trade Unionism |
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Trade Unionism |
Box 1 |
Folder 16 |
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Lecture |
Box 1 |
Folder 17 |
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Transport and Industrial Worker's Union Proposals (a) |
Box 1 |
Folder 18 |
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Transport and Industrial Worker's Union (b) |
Box 1 |
Folder 19 |
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Kay Shirt Factory Limited Research |
Box 1 |
Folder 20 |
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Kay Shirt Factory Limited Trade Union Agreements (a) |
Box 1 |
Folder 21 |
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Kay Shirt Factory Limited Trade Union Agreements (b) |
Box 1 |
Folder 22 |
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Kay Shirt Factory Limited Trade Union Agreements (c) |
Box 1 |
Folder 23 |
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Trade Mission to West Indian Territories (a) 1957 |
Box 1 |
Folder 24 |
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Trade Mission to West Indian Territories (b) |
Box 1 |
Folder 25 |
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United Nations Regional Economic Planning Projects: Manuscripts |
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Belize |
Box 2 |
Folder 1 |
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Caribbean: Energy Production and Consumption |
Box 2 |
Folder 2 |
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Caribbean: Development Planning (a) |
Box 2 |
Folder 3 |
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Caribbean: Development Planning (b) |
Box 2 |
Folder 4 |
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Dominica: Development Planning |
Box 2 |
Folder 5 |
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Dominica: Hurricane Disaster |
Box 2 |
Folder 6 |
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Grenada |
Box 2 |
Folder 7 |
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Grenada: Agricultural Sector Plan (Vol.1) |
Box 2 |
Folder 8 |
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Grenada: Agricultural Sector Plan (Vol. 1 b) |
Box 2 |
Folder 9 |
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Grenada, Montserrat: Auditors |
Box 2 |
Folder 10 |
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Jamaica: Agricultural Development Strategy |
Box 2 |
Folder 11 |
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Jamaica: Land Reform |
Box 2 |
Folder 12 |
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St. Kitts, Nevis, Anguilla (a) |
Box 2 |
Folder 13 |
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St. Kitts, Nevis, Anguilla (b) |
Box 2 |
Folder 14 |
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Tobago: Development Programme (Frampton Committee) |
Box 2 |
Folder 15 |
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Trinidad: Agriculture |
Box 2 |
Folder 16 |
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Trinidad and Tobago: Economic Development |
Box 2 |
Folder 17 |
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Trinidad and Tobago: Trade |
Box 2 |
Folder 18 |
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Economic and Business Research Information and Advisory Service: Manuscripts and Publications |
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Barbados Sugar Enquiry Commission |
Box 3 |
Folder 1 |
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Carib Glassworks Limited: Study |
Box 3 |
Folder 2 |
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Gasoline Brand Usage: West St.George and Port of Spain: Report |
Box 3 |
Folder 3 |
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Market Research Survey: Pump Stations, Food and Drink, Various Products |
Box 3 |
Folder 4 |
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Media Survey |
Box 3 |
Folder 5 |
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Grenada: Socio-Economic and Political Change |
Box 3 |
Folder 6 |
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Trinidad Brickworks Limited: Case of E.T. Maundy 1961 |
Box 3 |
Folder 7 |
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Trinidad and Tobago Television Limited: Survey |
Box 3 |
Folder 8 |
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Trinidad and Tobago Trading Stamp Industry |
Box 3 |
Folder 9 |
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Caribbean Economic Almanac 1962 |
Box 3 |
Folder 10 |
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A Note on Employment in the Shrit and Garment Industry |
Box 3 |
Folder 11 |
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A Pilot Study on Levels of Living of Families in the Oil Industry |
Box 3 |
Folder 11 |
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A Preliminary Study Relating to Environmental Management |
Box 3 |
Folder 11 |
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Project Document on Socio-Economic and Political Change in Grenada |
Box 3 |
Folder 12 |
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A Promotion Study on Farming in the Ward of Tacarigua |
Box 3 |
Folder 13 |
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A Survey of Media in Trinidad |
Box 3 |
Folder 14 |
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A Survey of the Textile Market in British Guiana and Surinam |
Box 3 |
Folder 15 |
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United Nations Projects: Publications |
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Agricultural Sector Plan for Grenada 1977-1981 Vol.1 |
Box 3 |
Folder 16 |
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Agricultural Sector Plan for Grenada 1977-1981 Vol.2 |
Box 3 |
Folder 16 |
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Land-Man Relationship in the Caribbean with special reference to Grenada (3 copies) |
Box 3 |
Folder 17 |
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Report on Farm Survey conducted in Grenada 1979 |
Box 3 |
Folder 17 |
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Documents submitted to the First Meeting of Planning Officials in the Caribbean (25-31 January, Havana, Cuba 1979) Vol.1 |
Box 3 |
Folder 18 |
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Documents submitted to the First Meeting of Planning Officials in the Caribbean (25-31 January , Havana, Cuba 1979) Vol.2 |
Box 3 |
Folder 18 |
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Food System and Popular Participation Model Based on Studies done in Grenada. 1980 |
Box 3 |
Folder 19 |
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Marketing in St.Kitts-Nevis. 1980 |
Box 3 |
Folder 19 |
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Publications |
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Transport in Trinidad: Report by Arthur Jessop. 1956 |
Box 3 |
Folder 20 |
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The National Food and Nutrition Survey of St. Lucia. Caribbean Food and Nutrition Institute. 1976 |
Box 3 |
Folder 20 |
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The Meat Myth and Caribbean Food Planning. By Omawale. Institute of Social and Economic Research, UWI, Jamaica. Working Paper 25 (1979) |
Box 3 |
Folder 20 |
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Work Harder, Produce More, Build Grenada: Report on the National Economy for 1981 and the Prospects for 1982. By Bernard Coard |
Box 3 |
Folder 20 |
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Trinidad and Tobago: Factors affecting Its Capacity to Import Food. By H. Christine Bolling. International Economics Division, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Foreign Agricultural Economic Report No.178 |
Box 3 |
Folder 20 |
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Sugarcane Feeds Centre. Annual Report January 1, 1984 to Decemeber 31, 1985. Trindad and Tobago. |
Box 3 |
Folder 20 |
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Oversized Documents |
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Poster of Publications by Max Ifill |
Box 4 |
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Politics in Trinidad: Incomplete typescript |
Box 4 |
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