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Author : Moon-Ho Jung
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801882814
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (828 download)
Download or read book Coolies and Cane written by Moon-Ho Jung and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : Joanne Joseph
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1776191722
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (761 download)
Download or read book Children of Sugarcane written by Joanne Joseph and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2021-10-06 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Shanti is a heroine that the reader will not easily forget. The story that is told here is worth not only knowing but also remembering." – Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, author, filmmaker and academic Vividly set against the backdrop of 19th century India and the British-owned sugarcane plantations of Natal, written with great tenderness and lyricism, Children of Sugarcane paints an intimate and wrenching picture of indenture told from a woman's perspective. Shanti, a bright teenager stifled by life in rural India and facing an arranged marriage, dreams that South Africa is an opportunity to start afresh. The Colony of Natal is where Shanti believes she can escape the poverty, caste, and troubling fate of young girls in her village. Months later, after a harrowing sea voyage, she arrives in Natal only to discover the profound hardship and slave labour that await her. Spanning four decades and two continents, Children of Sugarcane demonstrates the lifegiving power of love, heartache, and the indestructible bonds between family and friends. These bonds prompt heroism and sacrifice, the final act of which leads to Shanti's redemption.
Author : Sara Abraham
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739116869
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (168 download)
Download or read book Labour and the Multiracial Project in the Caribbean written by Sara Abraham and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Labour and The Multiracial Project in the Caribbean covers major twentieth-century political developments in Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana. It pays particular attention to social movements, class formation, and new emancipatory ideas on liberation from colonial legacies in political structure and racial division.
Author : Kjell J. Havnevik
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN 13 : 9789171063359
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (633 download)
Download or read book Tanzania written by Kjell J. Havnevik and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 1993 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C. Allan Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780824895761
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (957 download)
Download or read book From King Cane to the Last Sugar Mill written by C. Allan Jones and published by . This book was released on 2023-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From King Cane to the Last Sugar Mill focuses on the technological and scientific advances that allowed Hawai'i's sugar industry to become a world leader and Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company (HC&S) to survive into the twenty-first century. The authors, both agricultural scientists, offer a detailed history of the industry and its contributions, balanced with discussion of the enormous societal and environmental changes due to its aggressive search for labor, land, and water. Sugarcane cultivation in Hawai'i began with the arrival of Polynesian settlers, expanded into a commercial crop in the mid-1800s, and became a significant economic and political force by the end of the nineteenth century. Hawai'i's sugar industry entered the twentieth century heralding major improvements in sugarcane varieties, irrigation systems, fertilizer use, biological pest control, and the use of steam power for field and factory operations. By the 1920s, the industry was among the most technologically advanced in the world. Its expansion, however, was not without challenges. Hawai'i's annexation by the United States in 1898 invalidated the Kingdom's contract labor laws, reduced the plantations' hold on labor, and resulted in successful strikes by Japanese and Filipino workers. The industry survived the low sugar prices of the Great Depression and labor shortages of World War II by mechanizing to increase productivity. The 1950s and 1960s saw science-driven gains in output and profitability, but the following decades brought unprecedented economic pressures that reduced the number of plantations from twenty-seven in 1970 to only four in 2000. By 2011 only one plantation remained. Hawai'i's last surviving sugar mill, HC&S--with its large size, excellent water resources, and efficient irrigation and automated systems--remained generally profitable into the 2000s. Severe drought conditions, however, caused substantial operating losses in 2008 and 2009. Though profits rebounded, local interest groups have mounted legal challenges to HC&S's historic water rights and the public health effects of preharvest burning. While the company has experimented with alternative harvesting methods to lessen environmental impacts, HC&S has yet to find those to be economically viable. As a result, the future of the last sugar company in Hawai'i remains uncertain.
Author : Sidney W. Mintz
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101666641
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Sweetness and Power written by Sidney W. Mintz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1986-08-05 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets In this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar, and reveals how closely interwoven are sugar's origins as a "slave" crop grown in Europe's tropical colonies with is use first as an extravagant luxury for the aristocracy, then as a staple of the diet of the new industrial proletariat. Finally, he considers how sugar has altered work patterns, eating habits, and our diet in modern times. "Like sugar, Mintz is persuasive, and his detailed history is a real treat." -San Francisco Chronicle
Author : Thomas D. Rogers
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807899585
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Deepest Wounds written by Thomas D. Rogers and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Deepest Wounds, Thomas D. Rogers traces social and environmental changes over four centuries in Pernambuco, Brazil's key northeastern sugar-growing state. Focusing particularly on the period from the end of slavery in 1888 to the late twentieth century, when human impact on the environment reached critical new levels, Rogers confronts the day-to-day world of farming--the complex, fraught, and occasionally poetic business of making sugarcane grow. Renowned Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre, whose home state was Pernambuco, observed, "Monoculture, slavery, and latifundia--but principally monoculture--they opened here, in the life, the landscape, and the character of our people, the deepest wounds." Inspired by Freyre's insight, Rogers tells the story of Pernambuco's wounds, describing the connections among changing agricultural technologies, landscapes and human perceptions of them, labor practices, and agricultural and economic policy. This web of interrelated factors, Rogers argues, both shaped economic progress and left extensive environmental and human damage. Combining a study of workers with analysis of their landscape, Rogers offers new interpretations of crucial moments of labor struggle, casts new light on the role of the state in agricultural change, and illuminates a legacy that influences Brazil's development even today.
Author : Shahid Amin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521589002
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Peripheral Labour written by Shahid Amin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-05-13 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes an alternative look at the notion of 'wage-workers' and contributes to the development of a non-Eurocentric historiography.
Author : O. Nigel Bolland
Publisher : Ian Randle Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9766371903
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (663 download)
Download or read book Revisiting Caribbean Labour written by O. Nigel Bolland and published by Ian Randle Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This retrospective on past Caribbean labour struggles provides the beginnings of a region-wide comparative perspective. Extending initial insights from the Anglophone to the Hispanic Caribbean, and from the momentous upheavals of the 1930s to the present, the essays examine the pivotal role which labour has played, and continues to play, in shaping not only the political culture of the region and its history, but also its domestic and social organization. Moreover, the essays tease out many of the activities and much of the activism which has been obscured not only by biases in the historical record, but by those of the labour leadership. Thus, the role of women in labour and revolutionary activities, and the role of memory on historical consciousness and contemporary activism are crucially brought to the surface. Revisiting Caribbean Labour is written o provide today s Caribean labour movements with an understanding of their history that can help them more effectively face the challenges of today. It is an expansion and tribute to the work of O. Nigel Bolland on the British Caribbean. "
Author : Kay Saunders
Publisher : University of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 1921902108
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (219 download)
Download or read book Workers in Bondage written by Kay Saunders and published by University of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on thorough documentary research in archives and newspapers, Workers in Bondage begins with the origins of servitude during the convict era in Queensland before its separation from New South Wales in 1859. The study then focuses in on Queensland’s Pacific Islander labor force, examining the reconstruction of the Queensland sugar industry after the withdrawal of Islander labor and describing the realities of white labor and the early trade union struggles in the sugar industry. Underlying the text is an analysis of labor manipulation by capitalism in a new colony during a time of transition from slavery to indenture in the British Empire. This is a comprehensive and insightful academic examination of the little known history of the enslavement of Pacific Island workers in Australian convict-era industries, as well as a wider study of race relations in a frontier society.
Author : Edward Dunsworth
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228012708
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Harvesting Labour written by Edward Dunsworth and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades an increasing share of Canada’s agricultural workforce has been made up of temporary foreign workers from the Global South. These labourers work difficult and dangerous jobs with limited legal protections and are effectively barred from permanent settlement in Canada. In Harvesting Labour Edward Dunsworth examines the history of farm work in one of Canada’s underrecognized but most important crop sectors – Ontario tobacco. Dunsworth takes aim at the idea that temporary foreign worker programs emerged in response to labour shortages or the unwillingness of Canadians to work in agriculture. To the contrary, Ontario’s tobacco sector was extremely popular with workers for much of the twentieth century, with high wages attracting a diverse workforce and enabling thousands to establish themselves as small farm owners. By the end of the century, however, the sector had become something entirely different: a handful of mega-farms relying on foreign guest workers to produce their crops. Taking readers from the leafy fields of Ontario’s tobacco belt to rural Jamaica, Barbados, and North Carolina and on to the halls of government, Dunsworth demonstrates how the ultimate transformation of tobacco – and Canadian agriculture writ large – was fundamentally a function of the capitalist restructuring of farming. Harvesting Labour brings together the fields of labour, migration, and business history to reinterpret the historical origins of contemporary Canadian agriculture and its workforce.
Author : Marcel M. van der Linden
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004229523
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Working on Labor written by Marcel M. van der Linden and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-08-09 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using comparative and long-term perspectives the seventeen essays in this collection discuss the development of labor relations and labor migrations in Europe, Asia and the US from the thirteenth century to the present.
Author : G.K. Lieten
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400701772
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Hazardous Child Labour in Latin America written by G.K. Lieten and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-01-21 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to bridge the lack of information on child labour and to stimulate policy interventions the IREWOC Foundation (International Research on Working Children) has undertaken action-based research in the field of the worst forms of child labour in Latin America. In 2006 and 2007 a comparative study on the Worst Forms of Child Labour was carried out in 7 different economic sectors in Bolivia, Guatemala and Peru focussing on the hazardous worst forms. The central research objectives were as follows: • to map the working and living situations of children who are working in specific economic sectors and what the consequences of this work are for their physical and emotional wellbeing. • to investigate the reasons why these children are working in these worst forms sectors. The research results were expected to give important insights into the currently polarised debate between those who state child labour is above all related to cultural considerations and those who state that economic reasons are fundamental to the phenomena of child labour. • to map the existing policy initiatives for child labourers in the worst forms and to identify the best practices. In the face of challenges imposed by achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set by the UN, specific attention was paid to educational initiatives. Is education a useful tool in combating child labour, and vice versa, is child labour a significant obstacle to achieving universal primary education? Although the evidence from the various cases discussed in the book illustrate positive trends in terms of the worst forms of child labor, thousands of children were still found to be engaged in activities that form a direct threat to their physical, mental and moral health and jeopardize their education. This book proposes several practical recommendations for possible interventions.
Author : Australia. Parliament
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1430 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Parliamentary Debates written by Australia. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Way
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521440335
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Common Labour written by Peter Way and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-09-24 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of canal workers traces another strand of the labour story, one where the absence of skills bred powerlessness that made common labour's engagement with capital markedly unequal.
Author : Hendrik Coenraad Prinsen Geerligs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)
Download or read book The World's Cane Sugar Industry, Past and Present written by Hendrik Coenraad Prinsen Geerligs and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Society of Chemical Industry (Great Britain)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1618 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry written by Society of Chemical Industry (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
