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Barbados Workers Union

IDENTITY STATEMENT AREA
Reference code(s): ICS 138
Title: Barbados Workers Union
Date(s): 1952 - 1962
Level of description: Fond
Extent and medium of the unit of description: 1 file

CONTEXT AREA
Name of creator(s): Barbados Workers' Union
Sugar Producers' Federation of Barbados
Administrative/Biographical history: The Barbados Workers’ Union is a general workers union and was registered on 4th October 1941. It has a membership of 25,000 persons covering all areas of employment in Barbados.
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer:

CONTENT AND STRUCTURE AREA
Scope and content: Photocopies of agreements between the Sugar Producers' Federation of Barbados and the Barbados Workers' Union on wages of plantation and factory workers in the sugar industry, 1952-1962
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
System of arrangement: Chronological

CONDITIONS OF ACCESS AND USE AREA
Conditions governing access:
Conditions governing reproduction: A photocopying service is available, at the discretion of the Library staff. Copies are supplied solely for research or private study. Requests to publish, or to quote from, original material should be submitted to the Information Resources Manager.
Language/scripts of material: English
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids: None

ALLIED MATERIALS AREA
Existence and location of originals: Not known
Existence and location of copies:
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DESCRIPTION CONTROL AREA
Recorder's note:
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: February 2002

Interest: Caribbean

Specific group:

INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Caribbean peoples
Plantation economy
Labour relations
Trade unions
Agricultural products
Plant products
Sugar

Personal/Corporate names
Barbados Workers Union
Sugar Producers' Federation of Barbados

Places
Caribbean
Barbados

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