Title: A history of the Guyanese working people, 1881-1905 /
Authors: Rodney, Walter.
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press,
Year: 1981
Subjects: Plantations Guyana History.; Elite (Social sciences) Guyana History.; Working class Guyana History.; Working class Guyana History; Working class Guyana History
Abstract: Esme Rockett, also known as MC Ferocious, rocks her suburban Minnesota Christian high school with more than the hip-hop music she makes with best friends Marcy (DJ SheStorm) and Tess (The ConTessa) when she develops feelings for her co-MC, Rowie (MC Rohini).
Contents: Internal and external constraints on the development of the working people -- The evolution of the plantation labor force in the nineteenth century -- Crisis and creativity in the small-farming sectors -- Socioeconomic differentiation: on the coast and in the hinterland -- The politics of the middle classes and the masses, 1880-1892 -- Resistance and accommodation -- Race as a contradiction among the working people -- The 1905 riots.