Sweetening "bitter sugar" :
Jock Campbell, the Booker reformer in British Guiana, 1934-1966 /
Clem Seecharan.

Description

Main Author

Seecharan, Clem.

Language(s)

English

Published

Kingston ; Ian Randle Publishers, 2005.

Subjects

Campbell, Jock, > Campbell, Jock, / Baron Campbell of Eskan, > Campbell, Jock, / Baron Campbell of Eskan, / 1912-1994.
Sugar workers > Sugar workers / Guyana > Sugar workers / Guyana / History.
Sugar trade > Sugar trade / Guyana > Sugar trade / Guyana / History > Sugar trade / Guyana / History / 20th century.
Guyana > Guyana / Politics and government > Guyana / Politics and government / 20th century.

Summary

This book is about Jock Campbell's role in the shaping of British Guiana (Guyana) towards the end of the empire. Campbell, the head of the Booker Company which owned most of the sugar plantations in colonial Guyana, was a reformer whose Fabian socialist beliefs drove him to secure major benefits for sugar workers, in the 1950s-60s. It explores the interplay between Campbell's programme of reforms and the doctrinaire Marxism of Guyana's charismatic politician Cheddi Jagan. "Sweetening bitter sugar" is part biography, part history and politics.

Physical Description

xvii, 675 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

ISBN

9766371997
9766371938

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