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Institute of Commonwealth Studies

Trinidad and Tobago: Pressure Groups Material


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0101 PG.TR

Held at: Institute of Commonwealth Studies

Title: Trinidad and Tobago: Pressure Groups Material

Date(s): 1962-

Level of description: Collection (Fonds)

Extent: 1 box

Name of creator(s): Institute of Commonwealth Studies

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The pressure group materials held here vary from labour market analyses produced by the Caribbean Employers' Federation to broad critiques of Trinidad and Tobago's political and economic system from a variety of groups, including the National Joint Action Committee (NJAC) and the New Beginning Movement (NBM). The majority of the materials date from the 1970s and 1980s, the period in which the ruling People's National Movement increasingly lost credibility with civil society.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Trinidad and Tobago pressure groups material, 1962 onwards, comprising reports, statements, pamphlets and addresses issued by the Caribbean Employers' Federation, the Committee for Labour Solidarity (Trinidad and Tobago), the National Joint Action Committee (Trinidad and Tobago), the New Beginning Movement (Trinidad and Tobago), the Organisation for National Reconstruction, the Peasant Farmers Association and the Workers' Educational Association (Trinidad and Tobago).

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Alphabetically by group, and then in rough chronological order.

Conditions governing access:

Open to all for research purposes; access is free for anyone in higher education.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies can usually be obtained - apply to library staff.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Records at item level on library catalogue (SASCAT)

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Further accruals are expected, some in electronic form

Archival history:

The Commonwealth Political Parties Materials collection was begun in 1960-61, with special emphasis being placed then, as now, on 'primary material such as party constitutions, policy statements, convention reports and election manifestos.' (ICS, Twelfth Annual Report 1960-1961). Since then, the main method of gathering material has been to appeal directly to political parties throughout the Commonwealth, though contributions from Institute members and staff following visits to relevant countries have been significant.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Institute of Commonwealth Studies

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

See also Trinidad and Tobago: Political Parties Material (PP:TR) and Trinidad and Tobago: Trades Unions Material (TU:TR), as well as Political Party, Trades Unions and Pressure Group Materials for other Commonwealth countries and related material in the library's main classified sequence, all held at the ICS.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Description compiled by Daniel Millum, Political Archives Project Officer at the Institutes of Commonwealth and Latin American Studies.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Created 02/11/2004 AIM25


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Interest groups | Groups
Labour movements | Labour relations
Politics | Political science
Agriculture
Political movements

Personal names

Corporate names
Caribbean Employers' Federation
Committee for Labour Solidarity (Trinidad and Tobago)
National Joint Action Committee (Trinidad and Tobago)
New Beginning Movement (Trinidad and Tobago)
Organisation for National Reconstruction
Peasant Farmers Association
Workers' Educational Association (Trinidad and Tobago)

Places
Trinidad and Tobago | Caribbean