The birth of the Guyanese working class and the first sugar strikes, 1840/41 and 1847
By: Walter Rodney.
Publisher: Working People's Alliance
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Georgetown, Guyana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Strikes and lockouts -- Sugar industry -- Guyana -- History.; Working class -- Guyana -- History.; Plantations -- Guyana -- History.
Description: "Analyzes circumstances precipitating labor protests in mid-19th-century British Guiana and the consequences for political consciousness and activism"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Notes: Cover title.
"Reprint from text of a talk given by WR at the Ferdinand Braudel Center, December 11, 1978 in Review, IV, 4, Spring, 1981"--P. [4] of cover.