International / West Indies

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Reference code(s): MSS.292D/ Box 2548 - 2552/file 972-972.9

Title: International / West Indies

Date(s): 1971 - 1990

Level of description: sub-series

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Scope and content: Records Caribbean Congress of Labour newsletter, Foreign and Commonwealth Office Background Brief series on various Caribbean states and records of the Commonwealth Trade Union Council and the International Labour Organisation.. The format includes reports, press releases, newsletters, news clippings, correspondence and pamphlets. Records cover such issues as Caribbean women trade unionists, Unions in the Caribbean, life in the Caribbean, general Elections in the Caribbean, Caribbean educators study visits to the UK, the activities of the West Indian Welfare Trust, and racial discrimination policy in the UK. Caribbean countries specifically mentions include Bermuda, Bahamas, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Trinidad, Belize, St Vincent and Jamaica. Of use to those interested in history of race relations between the TUC and the commonwealth which predates post-war Caribbean migration.

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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: Caribbean, Black

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Womens employment

Women

Industrial relations

Trade unions

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West Indian Welfare Trust

Commonwealth Trade Union Council

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Caribbean

Jamaica

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Belize

Trinidad and Tobago

Guyana

Grenada

Dominica

Bahamas

Bermuda