Cane and Labour
Author | : Adrian Graves |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Adrian Graves |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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Author | : Moon-Ho Jung |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2006-04 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780801882814 |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Labor Standards |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Alien labor |
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Author | : United States. General Accounting Office |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Agricultural laborers, Foreign |
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Author | : Australia. Department of Labour and National Service |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Sugarcane |
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Author | : Jo Marie Dohoney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Foreign workers |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John C. Rodrigue |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2001-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807152625 |
In Reconstruction in the Cane Fields, John C. Rodrigue examines emancipation and the difficult transition from slavery to free labor in one enclave of the South -- the cane sugar region of southern Louisiana. In contrast to the various forms of sharecropping and tenancy that replaced slavery in the cotton South, wage labor dominated the sugar industry. Rodrigue demonstrates that the special geographical and environmental requirements of sugar production in Louisiana shaped the new labor arrangements. Ultimately, he argues, the particular demands of Louisiana sugar production accorded freedmen formidable bargaining power in the contest with planters over free labor. Rodrigue addresses many issues pivotal to all post-emancipation societies: How would labor be reorganized following slavery's demise? Who would wield decision-making power on the plantation? How were former slaves to secure the fruits of their own labor? He finds that while freedmen's working and living conditions in the postbellum sugar industry resembled the prewar status quo, they did not reflect a continuation of the powerlessness of slavery. Instead, freedmen converted their skills and knowledge of sugar production, their awareness of how easily they could disrupt the sugar plantation routine, and their political empowerment during Radical Reconstruction into leverage that they used in disputes with planters over wages, hours, and labor conditions. Thus, sugar planters, far from being omnipotent overlords who dictated terms to workers, were forced to adjust to an emerging labor market as well as to black political power. The labor arrangements particular to postbellum sugar plantations not only propelled the freedmen's political mobilization during Radical Reconstruction, Rodrigue shows, but also helped to sustain black political power -- at least for a few years -- beyond Reconstruction's demise in 1877. By showing that freedmen, under the proper circumstances, were willing to consent to wage labor and to work routines that strongly resembled those of slavery, Reconstruction in the Cane Fields offers a profound interpretation of how former slaves defined freedom in slavery's immediate aftermath. It will prove essential reading for all students of southern, African American, agricultural, and labor history.
Author | : Thomas D. Rogers |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807899585 |
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 | : Hendrik Coenraad Prinsen Geerligs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Sugar |
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