History of the 1958 sugar cane workers' wildcat strike in which workers at two adjoining plantations in Barbados refused to cut cane unless they were given a 15 cent per ton wage increase, before spreading plantations around the country.
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Comments
Ms Sutton also chose the strike as the topic of her dissertation:
The Scene of the Action: A Wildcat Strike in Barbados
it would be great if someone could add that to the history section as well
If I remember I can do it later today.
Cheers!
Ok, it's uploaded here. Again, as I don't know much about what the text is about or anything like that, can someone else add an intro and more tags?