The making of the black working class in Britain / Ron Ramdin.
By: Ramdin, Ron [author.]
.Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm) [distributor.].Publisher: London : Verso, 2017Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781786630667; 9781786630674; 9781786630650.Subject(s): Working class -- Great Britain -- History | Black people -- Employment -- Great Britain -- History | Black people -- Great Britain -- Economic conditions | Black people -- Great Britain -- Social conditions | Great Britain -- Race relations -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Online resources: Click here to access online - 1 user | Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| ebook | House of Lords Library - Palace Online access | ELECTRONIC RESOURCES (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 2020-1486 |
First edition published 1987.
Electronic book available via the Ebook Central platform.
I. The 'blackamoores" presence (1555-1900) -- Profits, slavery and the black poor -- Black radicals and black women in service -- Post-emancipation developments : indentureship and the rise of pan Africanism -- II. The black mans burden' (1900-1962) -- Britain, empire and labour -- The League of Coloured Peoples and black radical groups -- The development of a black radical ideology -- Post-war immigration : racism, riot and legislation -- III. The black working class (1962-1986) -- Capitalism, class, black workers and racial disadvantage -- The black workers' industrial struggle -- Organisers and organisations -- Black working class consciousness.