Article: On the march: labour rebellions in the British Caribbean, 1934-39.

(Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle 1995).

THIS IS A wonderful piece of historical sociology. Bolland brings together the story of the wave of labour strikes and riots that swept the British West Indies during the 1930s, and the ways in which they led, and led to, nascent anti-colonial and nationalistic movements during this period. In the historiography of the region, these stories have always been told as "national" ones, with the rebelling workers being imbued with something essentially Jamaican, or Trinidadian, or Barbadian, with their class membership being merely referred to and not theorized. The historiography meets politics in an act of alchemy when workers ...

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