Also available in paperback, 9781859739778 GBP17.99 (May, 1998)
Shobita Jain IGNOU, New Delhi Rhoda Reddock University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
'The literature on plantations [...] has been substantial. Attention to women workers has, however, been scattered and sparse. The book fills a gap both in the history of post-colonial states and that of the economic expansion of Europe.' Oxford: The Journal of the Oxford Society 'The book should arouse concern or interest on several counts: the fate or otherwise in the future, of poorly educated women workers, with limited skills, trapped, if to some extent liberated, from patriarchal dominanace, on commercial plantations; how far plantations cause migration, re-alignment of gender roles, and the blending of cultures.' Anthropology in Action 'Women Plantation Workers encourages us to think in fresh and expansive ways.' American Anthropologist
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