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Book Women Workers of Tea Plantations in India

Download or read book Women Workers of Tea Plantations in India written by Mita Bhadra and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Role of Women Workers in the Tea Industry of North East India

Download or read book Role of Women Workers in the Tea Industry of North East India written by Navinder K. Singh and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book Dwells On The Continued Exploitation Of The Women Workers In The Plantations Dominated By Males, And Suggests That Education And Social Empowerment Is The Daily Way Out For Them.

Book Witches  Tea Plantations  and Lives of Migrant Laborers in India

Download or read book Witches Tea Plantations and Lives of Migrant Laborers in India written by Soma Chaudhuri and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witches, Tea Plantations, and Lives of Migrant Laborers in India: Tempest in Teapot is a unique book that brings together a holistic theoretical approach on the subject of witchcraft accusations, specifically those taking place inside a tea workers' community in India. Using a combination of in-depth and extensive qualitative methods, and drawing on sociological, anthropological, and historical perspectives, Chaudhuri explores how adivasi (tribal) migrant workers use witchcraft accusations to deal with worker-management conflict. Chaudhuri argues that witchcraft accusations can be interpreted as a periodic reaction of the adivasi worker community against their oppression by the plantation management. The typical avenues of social protest are often unavailable to marginalized workers due to lack of organizational and political representation and resources. As a result, the dain (witch) becomes a scapegoat for the malice of the plantation economy. Within this discourse, witch hunts can be seen not as exotic and primitive rituals of a backward community, but rather as a powerful protest by a community against its oppressors. The book attempts to understand the complex network of relationships—ties of friendship, family, politics, and gender—that provide the necessary legitimacy for the witch hunt to take place. In most cases examined here, seemingly petty conflicts within the villagers often escalate to a hunt. At the height of the conflict, the exploitative relationship between the plantation management and the adivasi migrant workers often gets hidden. The book demonstrates how witchcraft accusations should be interpreted within this backdrop of labor-planters relationship, characterized by rigidity of power, patronage, and social distance. Witches, Tea Plantations, and Lives of Migrant Laborers in India should appeal to criminologists, sociologists, anthropologists, labor historians, gender scholars, labor migration scholars, witch hunt and witchcraft accusation global scholars, adivasi scholars, South Asian scholars, and anyone interested in India’s tribes, witchcraft accusations, gender in a global world, labor conflict, and Indian tea plantations.

Book A Time for Tea

    Book Details:
  • Author : Piya Chatterjee
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2001-11-29
  • ISBN : 0822380153
  • Pages : 435 pages

Download or read book A Time for Tea written by Piya Chatterjee and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001-11-29 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this creative, ethnographic, and historical critique of labor practices on an Indian plantation, Piya Chatterjee provides a sophisticated examination of the production, consumption, and circulation of tea. A Time for Tea reveals how the female tea-pluckers seen in advertisements—picturesque women in mist-shrouded fields—came to symbolize the heart of colonialism in India. Chatterjee exposes how this image has distracted from terrible working conditions, low wages, and coercive labor practices enforced by the patronage system. Allowing personal, scholarly, and artistic voices to speak in turn and in tandem, Chatterjee discusses the fetishization of women who labor under colonial, postcolonial, and now neofeudal conditions. In telling the overarching story of commodity and empire, A Time for Tea demonstrates that at the heart of these narratives of travel, conquest, and settlement are compelling stories of women workers. While exploring the global and political dimensions of local practices of gendered labor, Chatterjee also reflects on the privileges and paradoxes of her own “decolonization” as a Third World feminist anthropologist. The book concludes with an extended reflection on the cultures of hierarchy, power, and difference in the plantation’s villages. It explores the overlapping processes by which gender, caste, and ethnicity constitute the interlocked patronage system of villages and their fields of labor. The tropes of coercion, consent, and resistance are threaded through the discussion. A Time for Tea will appeal to anthropologists and historians, South Asianists, and those interested in colonialism, postcolonialism, labor studies, and comparative or international feminism. Designated a John Hope Franklin Center book by the John Hope Franklin Seminar Group on Race, Religion, and Globalization.

Book The Darjeeling Distinction

Download or read book The Darjeeling Distinction written by Sarah Besky and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction : reinventing the plantation for the 21st century -- Darjeeling -- Plantation -- Property -- Fairness -- Sovereignty -- Conclusion : is something better than nothing?

Book Status of Women Working in the Tea Plantations

Download or read book Status of Women Working in the Tea Plantations written by Elizabeth Kaniampady and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book Results Out Of An Empirical Study On The Status Of Women With Special Reference To The Women Working In The Tea Plantations. This Is A Maiden Anthropological Venture Among The Working Women In Assam Tea Planatations.

Book A Time for Tea

    Book Details:
  • Author : Piya Chatterjee
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2001-11-29
  • ISBN : 9780822326748
  • Pages : 444 pages

Download or read book A Time for Tea written by Piya Chatterjee and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001-11-29 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVAn innovative ethnography of the production, circulation, and consumption of tea, centered on the lives of the mostly women workers who produce it./div

Book Tea Garden Labourers of North East India

Download or read book Tea Garden Labourers of North East India written by Dutta Roy and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers of a 1985 seminar jointly sponsored by the North-East India Council for Social Science Research and Sacred Heart Theological College, Shillong, India.

Book Labour in Tea Gardens

Download or read book Labour in Tea Gardens written by Manas Das Gupta and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Study Is About The Continuity And Change In The Conditions Of The Labourers In Darjeeling, Duars And Terai Tea Gardens - Changes In The Economic Conditions Have Been As Important As The Continuities - 9 Chapters Including Conclusion - Index - Covers Apects Such As Migration To Tea Areas - Conditions In Pre-Independence Days - Trade Union Movements - Structural Changes In The Management - Women Labour - Government Attitude - Welfare Measures Etc. Condition As Good As New.

Book Activism and Agency in India

Download or read book Activism and Agency in India written by Supurna Banerjee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the period 2000 to 2010, tea plantations in India experienced a crisis and were at the threshold of transformation, framed by conflict and turbulence. This book is an interdisciplinary and intersectional work examining the nature of victimhood and agency among women workers on tea plantations in North Bengal, India. The author views tea plantations as social spaces, rather than only economic units of production. Focusing on the lived experiences of the workers from the perspective of their multiple identities, the author uses the everyday as the entry point for understanding the exercise of agency, the negotiation of different spaces, gender roles and norms therein, as well as acts of protest. Agency and its relation to space are seen as continuums: from their everyday, hidden forms to the more overt and spectacular; from conformity and endurance to challenge and protest. Offering an understanding of the gendered nature of space and labour, this book examines the post-crisis period by mapping the workers’ narratives about their lived experiences and struggles in the times of economic, political and social tumult in the tea plantations of northern West Bengal. It will be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience interested in Development Studies, Gender Studies, South Asian Studies, Social Activism and Labour Studies.

Book Women in the Tea Plantations

Download or read book Women in the Tea Plantations written by Devaki Jain and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Tea Labourers of North East India

Download or read book The Tea Labourers of North East India written by and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at the Seminar on Anthropo-Historical Perspectives of the Tea Labourers with Special Reference to North East India, held at Dibrugarh during 7-8 January 2005.

Book Activism and Agency in India

Download or read book Activism and Agency in India written by Supurna Banerjee and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first interdisciplinary and intersectional work examining the nature of victimhood and agency among women workers on tea-plantations in North Bengal, India. The author views tea plantations as social spaces, rather than only economic units of production. Focusing on the lived experiences of the workers from the perspective of their multiple identities, including caste, gender, ethnicity, religion, location and kinship, the author uses the everyday as the entry point for understanding the exercise of agency, the negotiations of different spaces, gender roles and norms therein, as well as acts of protest.

Book Woman s Role in Economic Development

Download or read book Woman s Role in Economic Development written by Ester Boserup and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2007 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book Tea Plantation Workers in the Eastern Himalayas

Download or read book Tea Plantation Workers in the Eastern Himalayas written by R. L. Sarkar and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study covers Darjeeling District, West Bengal, 1930-1983, sponsored by Ambekar Institute of Labour Studies, Bombay, and Friedrich Ebert Foundation, New Delhi.

Book Tea Plantation Labour in India

Download or read book Tea Plantation Labour in India written by Sharit Bhowmik and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Christian Tea Garden Workers of Tribal Origin

Download or read book Christian Tea Garden Workers of Tribal Origin written by R. L. Sarkar and published by Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. This book was released on 1998 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: