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The Most Expensive Port in the World: Dock Workers and the Cuban Revolution 1948-1959
Get PDFAt the beginning of the 1950s, the Cuban economy was in severe difficulties and a report for the World Bank recommended wage cuts and mechanisation as part of a package to increase productivity. It was unlikely that such a productivity drive, which would have resulted in increased unemployment and lower standards of living for Cuban workers, could have been implemented by a democratic regime and can be seen as one of the reasons why big business in Cuba was initially such a strong supporter of the de facto regime established by the 1952 coup d'état.
A crucial productivity battleground was the dispute over the bulk loading of sugar in Cuban ports. Sugar represented 80% of Cuba's exports and, given the fall in the world price following the end of the Korean War, the sugar industry employers needed to make as many savings as possible if they were to remain profitable. However, unemployment was also very high and bulk loading would have drastically cut the numbers of workers employed on the docks.
This paper will trace the history of the Cuban port workers from the 1948 murder of the legendary dockers' leader, Aracelio Iglesias, through to the triumph of the revolution ten years later. In this period, despite the early acceptance of bulk loading by a corrupt trade union bureaucracy and the use of the army as strike breakers, Cuban dockers, with the solidarity of railwaymen, sugar workers and students, managed not only to delay the introduction of mechanisation, but also to play a full part in the organised resistance to the Batista dictatorship.
Based on recent archival research in Havana, Manzanillo and Guantánamo, the paper, using the history of the Cuban dockworkers as an example, will argue that economic factors played a greater role in the insurrectionary phase of the Cuban revolution than the standard historiography admits and that the contribution of the organised working class to the revolutionary process should be reassessed
Visual art in the English parish church since 1945
No full textOne of a series of short articles contributed to the DVD-ROM learning resource 'The English Parish Church' (York,
Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture, 2010). It summarises the state of scholarship on the subject, and offers an interpretation of the period
Notes for a research project: communication and the phenomenological reduction
No full textThe question whether communication is open to phenomenological analysis hinges on the possibility of carrying out a phenomenological reduction with respect to communication. This brief text aims to outline what would be involved in such a project
Consumer insurance law - reform at last?
No full textComment by Peter Tyldesley, senior lecturer in the School of Law, University of Bedfordshire, on the prospects of reform in the law governing consumer insurance, following on proposals from the English and Scottish Law Commissions. Published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London
The South African close corporation under the Companies Act of 2008
No full textA review, by Professor J.J. Henning, of the South African Companies Act 71 of 2008, considering in particular the impact of its provisions on South African close corporation - a juristic person that confers on its members all the usual advantages associated with legal personality and in which all or most members are actively involved. Published in Amicus Curiae – Journal of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by SALS at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London
Register of research in Commonwealth countries (May 2009)
No full textThe Register of Commonwealth Research is a list of higher degree theses conducted at UK Universities and relating to the Commonwealth of Nations, its member countries, and the former British Empire. The Register has been maintained since 1949 and its retrospective coverage extends back to the 1920s. Commonwealth studies has been defined as study of the Commonwealth of Nations; the former British Empire; and their member countries together with countries formerly under British protection. The exceptions are Britain and the United States. Subject coverage is primarily in the fields of history, politics, sociology, anthropology, economics, geography, literature, language and religion. The subjects of education, medicine, law, science and technology are included on a selective basis. Data for the register are obtained from a variety of sources, including the Aslib Index to theses, Universities' lists of graduate students, correspondence conducted with academic registrars and supervisors, annual reports, departmental websites, and a wide variety of other sources. Information on theses in progress is provided in a separate listing, derived from the register, and updated annually. These files contain information on theses completed, and are correct as of May 2009. These will also be updated annually. The compilation of this register has relied on the co-operation of many persons but it is recognised that it may contain errors, inaccuracies and omissions. Notification of these would be most welcome. You can contact the editor by email at: [email protected]
The full Register contains (as of May 2009) more than 17000 records and is continually growing. For ease of use, the register has been divided into the following files: Commonwealth general (including Human Rights and Development issues); Africa and Atlantic Ocean islands; Canada; Caribbean; South Asia; Southeast Asia; Europe; and Oceania. The files are provided in excel format
Ronald Reagan vs. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the influence of their ‘screenplays’ on lives of Californians.
No full textDissertation for the MSc US Politics & Contemporary History submitted September 2008. Supervisor: Professor Iwan Morgan
The Twilight Zone: Puerto Rico's cultural identity in the work of José Luiz González
No full textThis is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of this article, following peer review
The European Union, international law and the Middle East peace process
No full textConsideration of the role of the European Union and international law in the Israeli-Palestinian disputes in the Middle East. The article is based on a Public lecture delivered at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in March 2009. Article by Dr Urfan Khaliq, Senior Lecturer in Laws, Cardiff University, published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London
The feminism of an antifeminist in Carmen Martín Gaite’s Cuadernos de todo
No full textIn the 1960s Carmen Martín Gaite (1925–2000) began writing what she called her‘cuadernos de todo’, one of her main preoccupations during this period being the situation of women and the family in society. However, the author always rejected the ‘feminist’ label, to the extent that she even called herself an ‘antifeminist’. In this article, I examine the first ‘cuadernos de todo’, focusing on the author’s ideas about women in society. Drawing on Julia Kristeva’s (1986) article ‘Women’s time’, I indicate
the emergence in Martín Gaite’s notebooks of some of the ideas that would be part of the second wave of the 1970s feminism that Kristeva’s work helped to catalyse. Even
though ideas of ‘difference feminism’ did not reach Spain until much later, I will argue that Martín Gaite nonetheless ‘proposed’ a new kind of feminism, different from the man/woman dichotomy upon which much second wave feminism rested, a polyphonic feminism where women could, on the one hand, embrace maternity and, yet, on the
other, envisage other social roles