ABSTRACT
From a working class point of view wage exploitation and color discrimination have produced Jamaica's classes. Differentials of education also play a role, but the importance attributed to that role varies with the mood of the worker. Lack of education can also be seen as the very basis of the worker's position. This chapter presents the views of an older worker and a young socialist are still imbued with the ideology of education despite these workers' acute political sense. This hegemony in the end leads both these Jamaicans to question the ability of black working people to change their position. This chapter presents a case study of Winston Dennis who lives in Selton Town and has been employed at a large Kingston factory since 1968. It also presents a case study of Errol Blaine who is in his early thirties and works as a machinist in a repair shop of the Jamaica Railways.
