African Jamaican Women
Assam Tea Gardens
Bamenda Grassfields
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Colonial Administration
colonial agriculture history
Colonial Sugar Refining Company
comparative plantation economies
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Fiji's Indian Population
gendered labour migration in plantations
gendered labour systems
indentured servitude studies
Indian Women
Jamaica Archives
Journal ofPeasant Studies
migrant women labour
Morant Bay Rebellion
Negros Occidental
patriarchy in rural economies
plantation labourers
plantation women
Post-slavery Period
Regional Consumer Price Index
socio-economic systems
Sri Lankan Plantation
State Controlled Trade Union
Sugar Cane Workers
Sugar Estates
Tamil Nadu
Tea Estate
Tea Garden Workers
Tea Gardens
Tea Pluckers
Tole Women
Women Field Workers
Women Plantation Workers
women workers
Product details
- ISBN 9781859739778
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 May 1998
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Shobita Jain IGNOU, New DelhiRhoda Reddock University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
