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McK HD 15. 8193.5 3 m3D □SDfi7SEb 1 .C36 -.Sr I CARIBBEAN LABOR AND POLITICS legacies of cheddi jagan and michael manley e dite d by perry mars e3 alma h. young I# « ( i I ■* ( . - ,. fr- / 4 M, . . . hfimM i m J n ^ *«\ il ‘U C ' '. Caribbean Labor and Politics Dedicated to the memory of Alma Harrington Young Caribbean Labor and Politics Legacies of Cheddi Jagan and Michael Manley EDITED BY Perry Mars AND Alma H. Young Wayne State University Press Detroit African American Life Series For a complete listing of the books in this series please visit our website at http://wsupress.watjne. edu Series Editors: Melba Joyce Boyd Department of Africana Studies, Wayne State University Ron Brown Department of Political Science, Wayne State University Copyright © 2004 by Wayne State University Press, Detroit, Michigan 48201. All rights are reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced without formal permission. Manufactured in the United States of America. 08 07 06 05 04 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Caribbean labor and politics : legacies of Cheddi Jagan and Michael Manley / edited by Perry Mars and Alma H. Young, p. cm. “This edited volume grows out of a conference held at Wayne State University in April 1998 that analyzed the lives and politics of two great leaders of the Caribbean, Cheddi Jagan of Guyana and Michael Manley of Jamaica”—Acknowledgements. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8143-3211-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Labor movement—Caribbean Area—Congresses. 2. Caribbean Area—Politics and government—1945—Congresses. 3. Labor unions—Guyana—History—Congresses. 4. Labor unions— Jamaica—History—Congresses. 5. Jagan, Cheddi—Congresses. 6. Manley, Michael, 1924—Congresses. 7. Guyana—Politics and government—1966—Congresses. 8. Jamaica—Politics and government—1962—Congresses. I. Mars, Perry. II. Young, Alma H. HD8193.5.C36 2004 331.88'09729—dc22 2003028063 CO The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction ix PERRY MARS AND ALMA H. YOUNG PART I Life and Times of the Men 1 Michael Manley: A Personal Perspective 3 NORMAN GIRVAN 2 Legacies of Cheddi Jagan 10 BRINDLEY H. BENN 3 Dr. Cheddi Jagan: The Making of a Movement Intellectual 18 MAURICE ST. PIERRE 4 Michael Manley, Trade Unionism, and the Politics of Equality 40 ANTHONY BOGUES 5 Colonialism, Political Policing, and the Jagan Years 64 JOAN MARS PART II Labor-Politics Nexus 6 Guyana, Jamaica, and the Cold War Project: The Transformation of Caribbean Labor 89 HILBOURNE WATSON 7 Globahzation, Economic Fallout, and the Crisis of Organized Labor in the Caribbean 126 CLIVE THOMAS V vi CONTENTS 8 Ethno-Politics and the Caribbean Working-Class Project: Contributions of Cheddi Jagan and Michael Manley 143 PERRY MARS 9 Women Trade Union Leaders in the Anglophone Caribbean 166 A. LYNN BOLLES PART III Critical Current Challenges 10 Global Economic Crisis and Caribbean Women s Survival Strategies 183 ALMA H. YOUNG AND KRISTINE B. MIRANNE 11 The Caribbean and Drugs: Challenges in Local-Global Context 200 IVELAW L. GRIFFITH 12 The Role of Emigration in the Caribbean Development Process 225 MONICA H. GORDON \ Selected Bibliography 243 ELLA DAVIS Contributors 251 Index 255 Acknowledgments This edited volume grows out of a conference held at Wayne State Uni¬ versity in April 1998 that analyzed the lives and politics of two great leaders of the Caribbean, Cheddi Jagan of Guyana and Michael Manley of Jamaica. We are grateful to those who made presentations at the conference, many of whom are contributors to this volume. The conference would not have been possible without the able assistance of Sabrina Williams, at that time a doc¬ toral student at Wayne State, and Debbie Hardie-Simpson of the Africana Studies Department. We would like to thank Monita Hollis Mungo for her professionalism in preparing the final draft of the manuscript. I [Alma Young] also appreciate her efforts in managing my schedule so that there was time to complete this project. Thanks also go to Treena Dundas for her research and bibliograph¬ ical assistance, and to Doug Towns, cartographer in the Wayne State Center for Urban Studies, for the map that appears at the beginning of the volume. We appreciate the permission to publish the photographs that appear in this volume. Photographs of Cheddi Jagan are from the Guyana Chronicle, and those of Michael Manley are from the Daily Gleaner and the Jamaica Information Service. We also thank Dudley Kishore of the Cheddi Jagan Research Institute in Georgetown and Opal Mars of Arawak Publications in Kingston for their kind assistance. Again, the cooperation and patience of the contributors to this volume have been invaluable, as have been the suggestions of the anonymous read¬ ers of the manuscript. We appreciate the excellent working relationship with members of the Wayne State University Press, and the support of the edi¬ tors of the African American Life Series, Melba Boyd and Ronald Brown. We are honored by the support of the Coleman A. Young endowment in Wayne States College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs, an endow¬ ment named in recognition of another great political and labor leader. Our inspiration comes of course from the lives of the two great men we honor with this volume, Cheddi Jagan and Michael Manley. Their contributions vii Vlll ACKNOWLDEGMENTS to the Caribbean and beyond remind us that much can be accomplished when individuals decide that the time has come for change. Many thanks to Dennis Young and Alden Young, and to Joan Mars and Jason Mars, for their encouragement and support. Alma H. Young Perry Mars August 2003 Alma Young passed away in March 2004 as this book was going to press.
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