Book Description
Ten essays fill in some gaps in the study of plantations by exploring the experience of the workers themselves, focusing on their reaction and adaptation to their situation, which ranged from acquiescence to rebellion.
Author : Brij V. Lal
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,4 MB
Release : 1993-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824814960
Ten essays fill in some gaps in the study of plantations by exploring the experience of the workers themselves, focusing on their reaction and adaptation to their situation, which ranged from acquiescence to rebellion.
Author : Shobita Jain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 24,19 MB
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1000320871
This pioneering collection of essays brings together a description and analysis of women workers and the socio-economic systems of plantations world-wide. The plantation remains a formidable force in many areas of the world and new trends towards tree farming call for further examination of its agriculture. Women have, in the past, constituted a considerable precentage of the work force in this milieu, and continue to do so.Using specific case studies of historical and contemporary plantations, an account is given of the history of female labour, focusing on the colonial and post-colonial eras. The essays examine reasons for women's degraded status and emphasize, in particular, issues relating to migrant workers.The gradual move away from traditional family roles is, to some extent, reflected in variations in the position of the female plantation worker. However, where inequalities in class and status continue to characterize plantation life, capitalist and patriarchal control prevails.Both chilling and bracing, the sufferings of plantation labourers may seem remote to most of us, but they are still very much part of the contemporary world. Providing a close insight into the lives of the female protagonists, these essays have given an opportunity for their stories to be heard.
Author : Ronald Takaki
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 10,18 MB
Release : 1984-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824809560
"A scholarly work but as readable as a novel, this is the first history of plantation life as experienced by the laborers themselves. The oppressive round-the-clock conditions under which they worked will make you glad they fought back in one huge strike; Takaki charts this conflict well." --San Francisco Chronicle
Author : International Labour Office
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,72 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Agricultural laborers
ISBN :
Author : Jean-Paul Sajhau
Publisher : International Labour Organisation
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 10,78 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789221056522
Author : Robert N. Anderson
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,38 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Sarah Besky
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 26,16 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520277392
Introduction : reinventing the plantation for the 21st century -- Darjeeling -- Plantation -- Property -- Fairness -- Sovereignty -- Conclusion : is something better than nothing?
Author : Sharla M. Fett
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,52 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780807853788
Working Cures explores black health under slavery showing how herbalism, conjuring, midwifery and other African American healing practices became arts of resistance in the antebellum South and invoked conflicts.
Author : National Union of Plantation Workers (MALAYA)
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 36,14 MB
Release : 1962
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Colin Kirk
Publisher :
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 15,2 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :