Race and Nationalism in Trinidad and Tobago: A Study of Decolonization in a Multiracial Society

Bryan, Anthony T.

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“…By the 1930s, petroleum comprised 60 percent of the T&T's exports and employed 8,000 workers predominantly of African ancestry, while sugar production made up 33 percent of exports and employed 68,000 workers of East Indian heritage (Edwards, 2017b). The colonial economic disparities spurred uprisings and mass strikes by the oil workers who led the fight for improved wages, education, health care services, and political decolonization (Ryan, 1972).…”

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The Dynamics of Industrial Development in a Resource-Rich Developing Society: A Political Economy Analysis

Perry

2018

Journal of Developing Societies

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This article criticizes the resource curse thesis for neglecting the interplay of international factors and domestic politics, that is the political settlement, in explaining industrial performance in a resource-dependent society – Trinidad and Tobago. Using political settlement, analysis secondary as well as interview data, it examines the dynamics at the macro and sectoral levels in iron and steel and telecommunications in Trinidad and Tobago. The historical evidence reveals that anti-colonial mobilizations spurred critical public investments in developmental institutions and industrial projects responsible for improving the country’s productive base and technological capability in the post- Black Power period. These investments were bolstered by a favorable geopolitical climate and the 1973 commodity boom. Sectoral case studies reveal how shifts in the country’s political settlement affected late-industrializing accumulation of accumulation technological capabilities. Hereafter neoliberal policies facilitated an increased role for external actors in economic policy and ethnic-based clientelism within the political economy.

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Section: Science and Technology Institutions And The Pattern Of Indusmentioning

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The Dynamics of Industrial Development in a Resource-Rich Developing Society: A Political Economy Analysis

Perry

2018

Journal of Developing Societies

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Race and Nationalism in Trinidad and Tobago: A Study of Decolonization in a Multiracial Society

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The Dynamics of Industrial Development in a Resource-Rich Developing Society: A Political Economy Analysis

The Dynamics of Industrial Development in a Resource-Rich Developing Society: A Political Economy Analysis

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