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Description: | Thousands of people came to London during the 1950s and 60s to fill jobs left empty at the end of Second World War. Although the economy took some time to recover, this was a time of full employment in Britain and British people were reluctant to take the lower paid jobs.
London Transport had recruitment problems because much of its work was low paid and operated on inconvenient shift systems. L.T. recruited young men and women from across the West Indies to fill important roles.
In spite of this, some Londoners accused Black and Irish migrants of 'stealing jobs' and worse. Racism was overt. Reginald Rice recounts a common experience of landlords refusing to rent rooms to Black or Irish people. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Migration and Citizenship Communities | Temporal: | 1960-1969 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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