Miles praised black workers’ labor activism yet distrusted its political institutions

Evidence

Interestingly enough, there exists a paradox in Miles’s thinking with regard to the kinds of political mobilization that black and migrant workers have participated in. On the one hand he applauds the participation of black workers in the labor movement, while at the same time he is cynical of the political fruits of the labor movement, that is, the Labour Party and the trade unions. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2188