A pioneering collection of studies linking the political and labor backgrounds of two distinguished and dynamic leaders of the Caribbean and the Third World.
Caribbean Labor and Politics: Legacies of Cheddi Jagan and Michael Manley
Alexander has written many of the cornerstone works on labor movements within the nations of Latin America, and this is his first volume to focus on the impact of international unions on Latin American labor issues.
Examines the history of the labor movement in Brazil from the last decades of the 19th century onward.
In Non-Sovereign Futures, Yarimar Bonilla wrestles with the conceptual arsenal of political modernity—challenging contemporary notions of freedom, sovereignty, nationalism, and revolution—in order to recast Guadeloupe not as a ...
The ideas and data found here will reverberate and suggest a host of analogous circumstances elsewhere. This volume, and the series as such, will interest students of the Caribbean, Latin America, and social development in the Third World.
Robert J. Alexander traces organized labor from its origins in colonial Cuba, examining its evolution under the Republic, noting the successive political forces within it and the development of collective...
This volume covers the history of organized labor in Uruguay and Paraguay since their inception in the late 19th century until 1990.
Chinea examines the social, economic, and political impact of foreign immigrants in Puerto Rico during its transition from subsistence farming and ranching in the late 18th century to commercial agriculture during the first half of the 19th ...
It is an expansion and tribute to the work of O. Nigel Bolland on the British Caribbean. "
Over the past decade, most countries in the Latin America and Caribbean Region have stabilized their economies and lowered barriers to international trade.