Women Plantation Workers

Women Plantation Workers
Author :
Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 203
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781000320879
ISBN-13 : 1000320871
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Women Plantation Workers by : Shobita Jain

Download or read book Women Plantation Workers written by Shobita Jain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


Women Plantation Workers Related Books

Women Plantation Workers
Language: en
Pages: 203
Authors: Shobita Jain
Categories: Gardening
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-08-25 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This pioneering collection of essays brings together a description and analysis of women workers and the socio-economic systems of plantations world-wide. The p
Pau Hana
Language: en
Pages: 236
Authors: Ronald Takaki
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1984-03-01 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"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-c
Working Cures
Language: en
Pages: 310
Authors: Sharla M. Fett
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Working Cures explores black health under slavery showing how herbalism, conjuring, midwifery and other African American healing practices became arts of resist
Plantation Workers
Language: en
Pages: 360
Authors: Brij V. Lal
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993-11-01 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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 the
A Time for Tea
Language: en
Pages: 435
Authors: Piya Chatterjee
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-11-29 - Publisher: Duke University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In this creative, ethnographic, and historical critique of labor practices on an Indian plantation, Piya Chatterjee provides a sophisticated examination of the