1st Edition
Women Plantation Workers International Experiences
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1 Plantation Women: An Introduction 2 Women Field Workers in Jamaica During Slavery 3 The Indentureship Experience: Indian Women in Trinidad and Tobago 1845-1917 4 Migration, Labour and Plantation Women in Fiji: A Historical Perspective 5 Tamil Women on Sri Lankan Plantations: Labour Control and Patriarchy 6 Indian Migrant Women and Plantation Labour in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Jamaica: Gender Perspectives 7 Gender Relations and the Plantation System in Assam, India 8 Women's Role in the Household Survival of the Rural Poor: The Case of the Sugar-cane Workers in Negros Occidental 9 Women Plantation Workers and Economic Crisis in Cameroon
Biography
Shobita Jain IGNOU, New DelhiRhoda Reddock University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
