Labour, Decolonization and Class: Re-Making Colonial Workers at the End of the British Empire

by Gareth Curless

The strikes and labour riots that swept through the empire during the late 1930s are widely regarded as a watershed moment in the history of British imperialism. According to conventional histories, the unrest was a catalyst for a major reorientation of not just colonial labour policy but colonial attitudes towards social and economic development in the empire.

Labour, Decolonization and Class reconsiders this established narrative,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350052892
• ISBN13: 9781350052895
• Release Date: October 2029
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 256 Pages