Taken together as a body of work in nation-building and international cooperation, supported by a clear political philosophy and principles, Michael Manley's contribution to Jamaica, Caribbean and international politics sets him apart from his contemporaries and predecessors in Jamaican politics.

His contribution to the struggle against injustice and for equality both at the level of the individual and at the level of the nations, and their relationship with each other, is the essential difference between Manley's work and that of the prior generation, whose primary concern was to detach Jamaica from a stifling colonialism.

If the history of post-Emancipation Jamaica was one in the which the legacy of slavery with its entrenched injustice and inequality were never erased, through his published works, The Politics of Change and Up the Down Escalator, for instance, he signaled a clear attempt to find the way to strengthen equality, both within the nation and internationally.

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