Trinidad, 1937: The Labour Riots | Oilfields, Unions and the Birth of Mass Politics

How did strikes by oil and waterfront workers turn into a colony-wide uprising that forced Britain to investigate Trinidad’s labour system? Sources: Report of the West India Royal Commission, 1938; Trinidad and Tobago National Archives; British Colonial Office files; Richard Hart, Labour Rebellions of the 1930s in the British Caribbean; Eric Williams Memorial Collection