Dr. Orville W. Taylor is Lecturer in Sociology
at the University of the West Indies, Mona, and the first PhD
in Sociology from Florida International University. A member of
the (American) Association of Black Sociologists, he has written
several articles and book chapters on the subject of race, the
African Diaspora and labour studies and has presented more than
20 conference papers in both Spanish and English. An external
collaborator with the International Labour Organization (ILO),
and former Senior Director of Industrial Relations in the Ministry
of Labour and Social Security in Jamaica, he is a specialist in
international labour standards and has produced several country
and regional reports. His most recent publications are; the co-edited
Tourism and Change in the Caribbean and Latin America (2002) and
an edited special issue of IDEAZ entitled, “Re-Thinking
and Re-Searching our Blackness” (2003), both published by
Arawak Publishers and ‘Globalization, Racism and The Terrorist
Threat: An Afro-Caribbean Response’, in Malveaux and Green’s
controversial, Paradox of Loyalty: An African American Response
to the War on Terrorism (2002), launched on Black Entertainment
Television (BET). His Thirty Years of Industrial Conflict in Jamaica
is due in November 2003.
Abstract: The
Challenge of Gender and the labour market after 30 years of Caricom