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Description: | Oli Jackson came to London in 1965. He was born in Portland, Jamaica, and was one of the many thousands of young Jamaicans who came to the U.K. after the Second World War. Like many of his contemporaries, hundreds of whom were directly recruited, Jackson began working for London Transport.
Working conditions for some immigrants in the 1960s were not good. Jackson was motivated by his experiences and became a trade union activist whilst working at Peckham bus garage. He was a member of the Transport & General Workers Union and became an official in 1984.
Jackson had earned his seat on the Transport for London board when the body was set up in 2000. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Migration and Citizenship Communities Power and Politics | Temporal: | Feb 1989 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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