William Riviere

William E. Rivière has written extensively on historical and political developments in the wider Caribbean, including the Diaspora. He is the author of Roots of Crisis (1987), and State Systems in the Eastern Caribbean (1990), and has penned several scholarly articles, including Labour Shortage in the British West Indies, 1838-1850 ; Programmatic Guidelines for Rural Development in Dominica ; Reminiscences Concerning Mass Work Among Farmers in Dominica, 1976-1983 ; The LeBlanc Era: Electoral...See more

William E. Rivière has written extensively on historical and political developments in the wider Caribbean, including the Diaspora. He is the author of Roots of Crisis (1987), and State Systems in the Eastern Caribbean (1990), and has penned several scholarly articles, including Labour Shortage in the British West Indies, 1838-1850 ; Programmatic Guidelines for Rural Development in Dominica ; Reminiscences Concerning Mass Work Among Farmers in Dominica, 1976-1983 ; The LeBlanc Era: Electoral Politics in Dominica, 1951- 1975 ; and Contemporary Class Structure in Dominica . With W. Winborne, he wrote Political Behaviour Patterns of Caribbean Immigrants in New York in the Nineteen Eighties: An Exploratory Inquiry (1990); and with J.A. George Irish, he co-edited Political Behaviour and Social Interaction among Caribbean and African American Residents in New York (1990). Among his unpublished research manuscripts are Resettlement of Jamaican Emigrants: Some Policy Considerations ; Management Training Institutions in Jamaica: A Needs Assessment ; Ideology, Mass Work and Political Behaviour in the Commonwealth Caribbean ; and, Political Perceptions about the Changing Role of the State in the English-speaking Caribbean . For some time following 1975 he was engaged in on-the-ground activism in his homeland, Dominica, but later returned to academia. In the late 1990s he retooled and returned to Dominica to practise law, which he continues to do, albeit on a much reduced scale. Much of See less