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PAPERBACK ISBN: 0-88258-068-X $32.95 256 pages; 5.5 x 8.5 inches
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A Voice at the Workplace: Reflections on Colonialism and the Jamaican Worker by Michael Manley
In January 1990, trade unions in Jamaica made a bold proposal: that government, labor, and management explore an alternative wage system that is sensitive not only to worker performance but also to the changing economic conditions of individual employers. In a revised edition of A Voice At the Workplace, former Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley considers the factors that have culminated in this historic development in trade union thinking. Manley traces the evolution of workers’ rights in Jamaica from the first strike in 1938 at Frome Estate and rivalries among the major unions, to the long overdue repeal in 1974 of the 1838 Master and Servants Law. In a postscript to this revised edition, Manley examines several developments that evolved during the sixteen years since A Voice At the Workplace first appeared. He discusses the more than a decade of wage restrictions, the rampant hostility toward unions during the 1980s, and the steady rise of a technologically determined, highly scientific, global economy. These and other factors, Manley posits, have brought the trade union movement in Jamaica to a crossroads between mounting frustrations and new challenges. To counter this trend, he plots a course that leads beyond preoccupations with economic survival to a new world of democratic participation in his native Jamaica and the Caribbean.
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