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288 pages; 6 x 9 inches

Women Trade Union Leaders of the Caribbean

Edited by A. Lynn Bolles

Workers in the English-speaking nations of the Caribbean began to unionize in the 1930s, and although women were central to the movement, their contributions are little known and even less documented.  Through candid interviews with women who were on the frontlines of the struggle in Antigua, Barbados, Jamaica, Montserrat, and St. Vincent, A. Lynn Bolles explores why women were omitted from the official history of organized labor in the region.  We Paid Our Dues: Women Trade Union Leaders of the Caribbean attempts to bring women’s activism in Caribbean trade unions to the world’s attention in their own voices by featuring personal accounts about how union participation affected specific aspects of women’s lives. Bolles creates a vivid impression of the complexities of women’s roles in trade unions in the Caribbean.

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