Colonial questions

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Reference code(s): MSS.292C/930.15/1 - 935/1

Title: Colonial questions

Date(s): 1937 - 1962

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Scope and content: The TUC's interest in British colonies mainly concerned colonial industrial relations, Labour conditions and trade unions. This series includes files on the Movement for Colonial Freedom, the Overseas Employers' Federation, TUC assistance to trade unions in British colonies, the World Federation of Trade Unions sponsored 1947 Pan- African Trade Union Information Conference and the Colonial Labour Advisory Committee, 1937 - 62. Lists of employers' associations and trade unions are also held in this series, 1938-42 and 1954-4. Material covers pan-African conferences, the movement for colonial freedom, and the colonial advisory committee

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Publication note: There is a section detailing this collection in the MRC publication, 'The Trade Unions Congress Archive, 1960 - 70.' Details of the series came from this publication.

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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.

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Interest: Black

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Decolonization

Colonial countries

Pan-Africanism

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Overseas Employers' Federation

World Federation of Trade Unions

Colonial Labour Advisory Committee, 1937-1962

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Caribbean