Description: This volume focuses on the role played by working people and their initiatives in the dissolution of the British Empire, both in the metropole and in the colonies. Exploiting rare primary sources and adopting a transnational approach, our collection makes an original contribution to both labour history and imperial studies.
Brief description: Yann Béliard is a Senior Lecturer in British Studies, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3.
Review Quotes:
'With excellent framing essays by the editors that enrich the discussion, connecting the multiple areas of new empirical inquiry to larger questions of historiography and deeper social context, this is the go-to text on the role of Labour and the Left within the politics of the British decolonization experience.'
Professor Leon Fink, Distinguished Emeritus Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago