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Factors Affecting Industrial Conflict in the Caribbean (1962–1971): A Preliminary Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2022

Carl Stone
Carl Stone*
Affiliation:
University of the West Indies
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Without exception, all studies of Caribbean industrial relations and the attendant conflicts have either been descriptive historical accounts of the emergence of labor movements and trade union parties or institutional analyses of the systems of collective bargaining developed in the postwar period. While these studies have been important in documenting industrial relations practices and the political dimension of Caribbean trade unionism, they lack both a rigorous comparative frame as well as a commitment to the measuring and testing of explanatory propositions. As a result, relevant behavioral data in this field remain crude, unanalyzed, and largely uncollected. Although the traditional emphases on historical, political, and institutional perspectives are desirable and important, particularly in view of the major social and political changes that both shaped and were influenced by the labor movement in the region, other perspectives are now necessary in coming to grips with the difficult task of comprehending and explaining patterns and variations in the relations between labor and capital in the Caribbean. These perspectives can only evolve through self-conscious attempts at both theory building and comparative analysis of quantitative data. This study represents a modest step in this direction that poses rather than answers some basic conceptual and theoretical questions, in view of the limits of the available data.

Type
Research Reports and Notes
Information
Latin American Research Review , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , 1979 , pp. 207 - 220
Copyright
Copyright © 1979 by the University of Texas Press

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