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Organised labour and the Batista régime: a British diplomatic perspective
No full textThe important place that British investments occupied in Cuba during the 1950s is reflected in the reports sent home by the ambassador. Having long complained of the low level of productivity, the British Ambassador supported Batista's coup of 1952 in the hope that the de facto government would use its position to reduce labour costs. The régime's use of repression and corruption to reduce the ability of organised labour to defend wages and conditions has not been
generally studied, but this aspect of his dictatorship is evident from a reading of the British diplomatic reports, which show that it was central to the support that
Batista received from local capital as well as from foreign business interests. In the year that sees the 50th anniversary of the Cuban revolution, this paper will
examine the Batista régime and the insurrection against it from the point of view of the British Foreign Office and the business interests it represented
The Society of Enhanced Legal Scholars, Seven of Nine, and some regulatory challenges for future generations
No full textArticle by Roger Brownsword (Professor of Law and Director of TELOS, King's College London and Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Sheffield) raising legal, moral and ethical questions related to biotechnologies and human enhancement. Originally delivered as a lecture to the Society for Advanced Legal Studies and 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 IALS (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London)
'Crónica del desamor': The Involvement of the Reader and the Transmission of Female Experience
No full textProsecuting terrorism: the Old Bailey versus Belmarsh
No full textThis paper considers the era of executive action which followed the immediate aftermath of 9/11 terrorist strikes in New York and the impact on United Kingdom domestic law leading to detention without trial ("Belmarsh") and control orders rather than prosecutions ("Old Bailey"). The first part of the paper examines the foundations for the reinvigoration of criminal justice in the UK and the second part explores the present and future implications for criminal justice.Article by Professor Clive Walker (Professor of Criminal Justice Studies at the University of Leeds) 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 ‘Slave Sublime’ How do Chamoiseau's 'Biblique des derniers gestes' and Jones' 'The Known World' contribute to a critique of trends in the remembrance of slavery in France and America?
No full text2007-2008 dissertation submitted for the MA in Cultural Memory at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies (IGRS). Tutors: Dr Andrew Asibong (Birkbeck) and Dr Richard Crownshaw (Goldsmiths)
Una sublevación de la clase obrera contra el Imperio Británico
No full textIn the 1930s, the British colonies in the Caribbean witnessed a series of strikes and riots that came to be known as the "Labour Rebellions". Starting from relatively minor labour unrest in 1934 in British Honduras, the Bahamas, Trinidad, Jamaica and British Guiana, the wave of disturbances erupted in earnest in 1935 with a sugar workers strike in St Kitts, followed by strikes and riots on St Vincent and St Lucia. There were further serious outbreaks of violence in Barbados and Trinidad in 1937, Jamaica in 1938 and British Guiana in 1938 and again in 19395. The pattern of events was similar throughout. A strike or other demonstration would be met with the full force of the colonial state, often with the arrival of a Royal Navy warship. Faced with a violent overreaction by the police, the military and pro-business "volunteers", the workers resisted as best they could but, faced with overwhelming repressive force, they eventually returned to work with little or no immediate material gains. Between 1934 and 1939, the forces of the state killed 46 workers, wounded 429 others and imprisoned thousands more. There is no evidence of co-ordinated region-wide organisation behind these events, so we must therefore look to political and economic conditions for an explanation.
The class structure of the British West Indies, distorted by the determination of the ruling elite and the colonial government to restrict the possibilities for the development of peasant farming and other small enterprise, meant that the main mass base for the independence movement was the proletariat. The workers, for their part, had seen that the British colonial regime would only introduce tiny reforms at a snail's pace and then only at the last minute because of militant action. They were also affronted by the Imperial double standard whereby white colonies such as Australia and Canada were granted self-governing Dominion status, while colonies with a black majority suffered from an undemocratic and repressive political order that was just another example of the systematic racism that underpinned the British Empire. In these circumstances, Marcus Garvey's campaign to highlight the plight of Abyssinia, abandoned to the occupation of Fascist Italy by the rest of Europe, only added fuel to the flames. Thus, hope for a reformed Empire that would give equal rights and a decent standard of living must have seemed an impossible dream and made the workers willing allies of the middle class nationalists. The authorities' response to the Labour Rebellions only confirmed this impression
‘For the house her self and one servant’: Family and Household in Late Seventeenth-century London
No full textThe 1695 returns for the marriage duty tax provide a unique opportunity to investigate the composition of London’s domestic groups. Traditional schemes for the analysis of the early modern family and household fail to capture the complexities of metropolitan living, and a ‘London-specific’
methodology is outlined for use in the returns’ classification. Application of this scheme to returns from two contrasting areas of London, a cluster of wealthy city-centre parishes and a poorer suburban precinct, reveals a
series of structural differences in their families and households that are attributable to the wealth and social status of their respective populations. However, some aspects of the domestic experience within the two areas are
more comparable than previous accounts would suggest
Corporate social responsibility and banks
No full textArticle discussing ethical issues and matters of social responsibility surrounding turmoil in the capital markets, bank failures and government intervention. Article by Charles Chatterjee (Global Policy Institute, London Metropolitan University) and Anna Lefcovitch (E C Harris LLP) 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
Greater than the sum of its parts: the growing impact of devolution on the processes of constitutional reform in the United Kingdom
No full textThis article is the revised text of a lecture given at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies on December 8, 2008, under the chairmanship of Lord Hope of Craighead and as the firts in a series on "What's Happening in Scotland?" Article by Chris Himsworth, Professor of Administrative Law at the University of Edinburgh, 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