| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.1

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Book Review

Caribbean and Latin America

O. Nigel Bolland. The Politics of Labour in the British Caribbean: The Social Origins of Authoritarianism and Democracy in the Labour Movement. Princeton, N.J.: Markus Wiener. 2001. Pp. xxii, 696. Cloth $49.95, paper $29.95.

O. Nigel Bolland has written a truly comprehensive historiography of labor's struggles to organize and build their political power in the last century of British colonial rule in that empire's West Indian realm. Although not including Bermuda in his region-wide coverage, the inclusion of Belize and British Guiana (Guyana) is appreciated. Bolland joins a memorable community of regional scholars who have provided the richest of historical analyses of this colonized, externally dominated region—a commendable feat unto itself. Also, following the scholarly tradition of luminaries such as Walter Rodney, C. L. R. James, Eric Williams, Franklin W. Knight, Gordon K. Lewis, and Hilary Beckles, Bolland takes a long historical perspective, so the emergence of the labor movement is contextually situated and dialectically viewed in terms of its social continuity as well as its resistance. In such a region as the Caribbean, tracing the growth and development of more contemporary social movements out of the "industrial" system imported during the plantation era of slavery and sugar not only sets the scene but also reminds us of the deep-seated structural forces of repression and destruction that have plagued (and conditioned) colonized minds and continue to present, albeit in a new neocolonial guise. . . .

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