List of maps, figures, and tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: wealth, wellbeing, and social institutions -- Organized labor and democratic consolidation -- The state and economic development -- Economic reform and labor's response -- Reorganizing industry, disorganizing workers --...

Introduction : wealth, wellbeing, and social institutions -- Organized labor and democratic consolidation -- The state and economic development --Organized labor and economic reform -- Reorganizing industry, disorganizing workers -- Organized labor, democracy, and development.

This comprehensive study of the development of education in the West Indies between 1492 and 1854 examines the shifts which occurred within the nature of the education programs provided for the masses. Believing existing theories of educational change are too limiting, Bacchus has blended...