Women plantation workers
Subtitle: international experiences
By: edited by Shobhita Jain and Rhoda Reddock.
Contributors: Jain, Shobhita.; Reddock, Roda.
Series: Cross-cultural perspectives on women,
Publisher: Berg
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
Subjects: Plantation workers; Women agricultural laborers
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-176) and index.
Table of contents: title: Plantation women : an introduction / Rhoda Reddock and Shobhita Jain; title: Women field workers in Jamaica during slavery / Lucille Mathurin-Mair; title: The indentureship experience : Indian women in Trinidad and Tobago, 1845-1917 / Rhoda Reddock; title: Migration, labour and plantation women in Fiji : a historical perspective / Shista Shameem; title: Tamil women in Sri Lankan plantations : labour control and patriarchy / Rachel Kurian; title: Indian migrant women and plantation labour in nineteenth and twentieth century Jamaica : gender perspectives / Verene A. Shepherd; title: Gender relations and the plantation system in Assam, India / Shobhita Jain; title: Women's role in the household survival of the rural poor : the case of the sugar-cane workers in Negros Occidental / Violeta Lopez-Gonzaga; title: Women plantation workers and economic crisis in Cameroon / Piet Konings.