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Dec 5, 2007 · In Jamaica in the week ending 12 December 1942, 505,092 persons were classified as gainfully occupied. Of these 283,439 were wage earners of whom 88,981 were classified as unemployed. This did not include 50,528 between ages 15 and 24 who had never had a job.
The 1930s would see the mass movement reach a new level of intensity, as workers demanded not only pay increases but also progressive social service reforms, proper housing, full adult franchise and self-government.
THE decade of the 1930s constituted an exceptionally poignant and clearly defining period in the history of the entire Caribbean region. Serious challenges to the political system occurred everywhere.
- Franklin W. Knight
- 2003
The Great Depression, which began around 1929 and lasted almost a decade, was a massive economic downturn, worldwide. The implications of the largest economic depression in the 20th century, included unemployment on an unprecedented scale.
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- Jamaica’s Postwar Modernization
- Conclusion: The End of The Reform Road
The protests of the 1930s ushered in political changes that led to representative government, mass parties, strong trade unions, “and a gradual drift towards political decolonization and democratization” (Stone, 1991: 249). The Jamaican racial-class tableau was occupied by remnants of the old plantocracy, predominantly Anglo-Jamaicans; a fast risin...
In the postwar era, Jamaica pursued economic modernization through a program of “industrialization-by-invitation”, with a focus on import substitution. As a result, the country experienced spectacular growth, with gross domestic product increasing at an annual rate of 7.2 percent between 1950 and 1965. Much of this growth occurred from investments ...
Jamaica’s economy went into a steep decline after 1973 as a result of the huge increase in the oil bill and a politically motivated cutback in the production and export of bauxite and alumina. In July 1977, during Manley’s second term in office, the Jamaican government signed an agreement with the IMF, which was suspended in December of that year f...
Labour revolts in the British Caribbean in the 1930s as they relate to structures of political, social, economic, and cultural domination. book part.
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1930s was the gradual reduction in external employment opportunities that had previously siphoned off a significant proportion of the most fertile age groups. As the West India Royal Commission Report of 1938-9 noted:
