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This study analyzes the critical factors that have shaped the character of trade unionism in the Commonwealth Caribbean, as well as the major challenges that currently confront trade union practice. Particular emphasis is placed on the sociological foundations of labor law and the role of the state, in addition to the shape and contours of future industrial relations practice in the region. This unique analysis is placed within a theoretical framework that sheds light on the role of trade unions in a peripheral capitalist social formation. This approach exposes the contradictions that characterize trade union practice and defines the role of the state in an economy that performs a particular function in the international division of labor.
This work compels a rethinking of some important questions in industrial relations, including the character and ideological orientation of Caribbean unions, the nature of and fundamental reasons for state involvement in industrial relations and how the future of industrial relations practice may be shaped. The book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in industrial relations, labor history and studies, and the economics of labor.
List of contents
Introduction
Values Orientation: The Springboard for Organized Action and Trade Union Behavior
Trade Unions in the Commonwealth Caribbean: Origins, Character and Contemporary Practice
Trade Union Behaviour and Industrial Relations Practice in the Commonwealth Caribbean
Labour and the Law in the Commonwealth Caribbean
New Directions in Industrial Relations in the Commonwealth Caribbean
Bibliography
Index
About the author
LAWRENCE A. NURSE is Senior Lecturer in Management Studies, at the University of the West Indies, Barbados. Previously, he served as Industrial Relations Adviser to the Caribbean Community Secretariat in Guyana and as a senior trade union officer with the Barbados Workers' Union, the major private sector union in Barbados.
