The making of the Black working class in Britain

The making of the Black working class in Britain / Ron Ramdin.

In this pioneering history, Ron Ramdin traces the roots of Britain's disadvantaged black working class. From the development of a small black presence in the sixteenth century, through the colonial labour institutions of slavery, indentureship, and trade unionism, Ramdin expertly guides us thro...

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Main Author: Ramdin, Ron (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Verso, 2017.
Edition:Updated edition.
Subjects:
Working class > Great Britain > History.
Blacks > Employment > Great Britain > History.
Blacks > Great Britain > Economic conditions.
Blacks > Great Britain > Social conditions.
Great Britain > Race relations > History.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • The 'Blackamoores" Presence (1555-1900)
  • Profits, Slavery and the Black Poor
  • The rise of African slavery
  • Profits
  • Pets and domestic servants
  • Liberty
  • Free black voices
  • Enemies and friends
  • The struggle of the black poor
  • Black Radicals and Black Women in Service
  • Robert Wedderburn
  • William Davidson
  • William Cuffay
  • Mary Prince: slave and 'servant'
  • Mary Seacole: 'nurse and doctress'
  • Post-Emancipation Developments: Indentureship and the Rise of Pan Africanism
  • The Indian diaspora: 'a new system of slavery'
  • Pan Africanism: origins and early development
  • The 'Black Man's Burden' (1900-1962)
  • Britain, Empire and Labour
  • East Indian labour: the abolition of indentureship
  • The British labour movement and imperialism
  • Cardiff: black seamen and soldiers
  • Liverpool: 'negro' workers and race relations
  • The League of Coloured Peoples and Black Radical Groups
  • Harold Moody: black moderate (founder and leader of the LCP)
  • The formation of the League
  • The LCP: development and issues
  • The Cardiff crisis: local organisations and the LCP
  • The League and other black groups
  • Pan Africanists in the twentieth century
  • The Development of a Black Radical Ideology
  • The black intelligentsia in Britain during the 1920s and 1930s
  • Indian nationalism
  • The radicalisation of Pan Africanism
  • Post-war Immigration: Racism, Riot and Legislation
  • Housing
  • Employment
  • The riots of 1958
  • Reactions: prelude to control
  • Racial tension
  • Post-riots organizations
  • The General Election
  • Liberal groups
  • The door is shut
  • The Black Working Class (1962-1986)
  • Capitalism, Class, Black Workers and Racial Disadvantage
  • Migrant labour and capitalism in Western Europe
  • The black community: urban deprivation
  • The Black Workers' Industrial Struggle
  • Industrial relations: the colonial context
  • Racial disadvantage in employment
  • Racial discrimination in employment
  • The struggle against the employers and trade unions
  • Black Caribbean women: nurses and ancillary workers
  • The textile industry
  • Black workers and the trade unions
  • Black workers and the trade unions: the British experience
  • In principle: TUC policy and resolutions
  • In practice: the disillusionment of black workers (alternative organisations)
  • Capitalism and curbs on discrimination
  • The black workers' response
  • Organisers and Organisations
  • Black Power and its advocates
  • Liverpool: 'Negro' associations
  • Asian workers' associations
  • The Asian workers' struggle and the IWAs 1968-1981
  • The Standing Conference of West Indian Organisations
  • Organisation from the top: CARD
  • The collapse of CARD
  • West Indian organisations in Moss Side and Easton
  • Black churches
  • Black organisations: the 1970s and 1980s
  • Black Working Class Consciousness
  • Black youth: the oppressed seen as a social problem
  • Racism and sexism
  • Black feminist responses
  • Gender, race and class
  • The oppressor: Blacks and the police
  • The police against the people
  • The police and the community
  • Race, class and autonomy
  • Black consciousness: spontaneous crowd violence
  • Black revolt
  • Conclusion.

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