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The End of Empire in Uganda: Decolonization and Institutional Conflict (2020)
Book
MAWBY, S. (2020). The End of Empire in Uganda: Decolonization and Institutional Conflict. London: Bloomsbury Publishing

The negative legacy of the British empire is often thought of in terms of war and economic exploitation, while the positive contribution is associated with the establishment of good governance and effective, modern institutions. In this new analysis... Read More about The End of Empire in Uganda: Decolonization and Institutional Conflict.

Workers in the vanguard: the 1960 Industrial Relations Ordinance and the struggle for independence in Aden (2016)
Journal Article
Mawby, S. (2016). Workers in the vanguard: the 1960 Industrial Relations Ordinance and the struggle for independence in Aden. Labor History, 57(1), 35-52. https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656X.2016.1140622

The promulgation in 1960 of a new Industrial Relations Ordinance in Aden was a singular event in the history of British decolonisation because it made many forms of strike action illegal. Earlier initiatives to liberalise trade union law in the colon... Read More about Workers in the vanguard: the 1960 Industrial Relations Ordinance and the struggle for independence in Aden.

The limits of anticolonialism: the British Labour movement and the end of the empire in Guiana (2016)
Journal Article
Mawby, S. (2016). The limits of anticolonialism: the British Labour movement and the end of the empire in Guiana. History, 101(344), 84-106. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.12156

The Labour Party’s ambivalent attitude to anticolonial nationalism is well known but its place in the conflicts between the party’s revisionists and the left has been less fully elaborated, while the influence of British trade unions in the formation... Read More about The limits of anticolonialism: the British Labour movement and the end of the empire in Guiana.