Labor Education in the Caribbean: A Critical Evaluation of Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad

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dc.contributor.authorRoberts, Danny
dc.contributor.authorMarsh, Lauren
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-22T16:49:15Z
dc.date.available2025-01-22T16:49:15Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractThe achievements of the labor movement in the Caribbean are generally historicized without highlighting the contribution of labor colleges to the function and survivability of trade unions. For more than fifty years, labor colleges have played a critical role in developing the knowledge and skill sets of union members who had an interest in labor studies. Many will attribute the heydays of the Caribbean labor movement in the mid-1900s to the intellectual thrust given to the trade union movement by labor colleges. During this period, trade unions relied heavily on labor colleges for intellectual support and advice primarily on matters that required in-depth academic investigation. Support from the labor colleges enhanced the reputation of the labor movement by shifting popular notions that the trade union movement consisted only of the poor and illiterate working class. The effects of these parallel training activities have been positive for both the leadership of the trade union movement and the overall impact they have had on labor-management relationships. There has been a noted change in the pattern of trade union leadership where “the first generation leaders, considered by many as demagogic and messianic, have given way increasingly to a younger and more formally educated second and third generation leadership”
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1017/S0147547916000132
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/575729045060DF6E51E5BAD68B2FD7CD/S0147547916000132a.pdf/labor-education-in-the-caribbean-a-critical-evaluation-of-barbados-jamaica-and-trinidad.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2139/57151
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherInternational Labor and Working-Class History, Inc. 2016
dc.relation.ispartofseriesInternational Labor and Working-Class History No. 90, Fall 2016, pp. 186–195
dc.subjectlabor education
dc.subjectCaribbean
dc.titleLabor Education in the Caribbean: A Critical Evaluation of Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad
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