Skinhead roots are actually found across the Atlantic, in Jamaica, where the British were quickly importing the modern factories already blooming greatly throughout the United Kingdom. As a direct result of industrialization, the working class was coming to existence in Europe. Likewise in Jamaica, most of the men worked in the factories, creating a very large working clas

It was in the mid 60’s that the first skinheads started naming themselves as such, as a mixture of Jamaican rude boys and the English mods. Mods were generally identified by their clothing, being that of the factory workers, the same worn by rude boys: ankle length jeans to avoid factory injuries, giant steel toe boots to protect the feet from machinery as well as what was once a cheap brand of clothing Ben Sherman. The difference between mods and rude boys was made on a basis of skin colour and hair length, but apart from that they were originally the same thing. The rude boys relied on the mod to integrate, creating one general group which shared clothing style. The mods started to slowly look more and more like the rude boys and vice versa, until the distinction was sometimes inexistent. It’s unknown who coined the term skinhead, but as of 1965 the first skinhead groups started to appear on the scene. They were essentially rude boys, although they were now a European movement rather than a Jamaican one.

It would be another 20 years before the term skinhead started being used to express a political affiliation. Politics weren’t an i

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