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• Title:Women plantation workers : international experiences / edited by Shobhita Jain and Rhoda Reddock.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Jain, Shobhita.
  Reddock, Roda.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford ; New York : Berg, 1998.
  

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  • Call Number: HD6073.A29 W73 1998
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Women agricultural workers.
  Plantation workers.
  
• Description:xvi, 186 p. : 1 ill. ; 24 cm.
  
• Series:Cross-cultural perspectives on women [v. 18].
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-176) and index.
  
• ISBN:1859739725
  1859739776 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Preface / Sidney Mintz
  1. Plantation Women: An Introduction / Rhoda Reddock and Shobhita Jain
  2. Women Field Workers in Jamaica During Slavery / Lucille Mathurin-Mair
  3. Indentureship Experience: Indian Women in Trinidad and Tobago 1845-1917 / Rhoda Reddock
  4. Migration, Labour and Plantation Women in Fiji: A Historical Perspective / Shaista Shameem
  5. Tamil Women on Sri Lankan Plantations: Labour Control and Patriarchy / Rachel Kurian
  6. Indian Migrant Women and Plantation Labour in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Jamaica: Gender Perspectives / Verene A. Shepherd
  7. Gender Relations and the Plantation System in Assam, India / Shobhita Jain
  8. Women's Role in the Household Survival of the Rural Poor: The Case of the Sugar-cane Workers in Negros Occidental / Violeta Lopez-Gonzaga
  9. Women Plantation Workers and Economic Crisis in Cameroon / Piet Konings.