Shobita Jain IGNOU, New DelhiRhoda Reddock University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago

• 1 Plantation Women: An Introduction 2 Women Field Workers in Jamaica During Slavery 3 The Indentureship Experience: Indian Women in Trinidad and Tobago 1845-1917 4 Migration, Labour and Plantation Women in Fiji: A Historical Perspective 5 Tamil Women on Sri Lankan Plantations: Labour Control and Patriarchy 6 Indian Migrant Women and Plantation Labour in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Jamaica: Gender Perspectives 7 Gender Relations and the Plantation System in Assam, India 8 Women's Role in the Household Survival of the Rural Poor: The Case of the Sugar-cane Workers in Negros Occidental 9 Women Plantation Workers and Economic Crisis in Cameroon

'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

Shobita Jain IGNOU, New DelhiRhoda Reddock University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago

• 1 Plantation Women: An Introduction 2 Women Field Workers in Jamaica During Slavery 3 The Indentureship Experience: Indian Women in Trinidad and Tobago 1845-1917 4 Migration, Labour and Plantation Women in Fiji: A Historical Perspective 5 Tamil Women on Sri Lankan Plantations: Labour Control and Patriarchy 6 Indian Migrant Women and Plantation Labour in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Jamaica: Gender Perspectives 7 Gender Relations and the Plantation System in Assam, India 8 Women's Role in the Household Survival of the Rural Poor: The Case of the Sugar-cane Workers in Negros Occidental 9 Women Plantation Workers and Economic Crisis in Cameroon

'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

Shobita Jain IGNOU, New DelhiRhoda Reddock University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago

• 1 Plantation Women: An Introduction 2 Women Field Workers in Jamaica During Slavery 3 The Indentureship Experience: Indian Women in Trinidad and Tobago 1845-1917 4 Migration, Labour and Plantation Women in Fiji: A Historical Perspective 5 Tamil Women on Sri Lankan Plantations: Labour Control and Patriarchy 6 Indian Migrant Women and Plantation Labour in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Jamaica: Gender Perspectives 7 Gender Relations and the Plantation System in Assam, India 8 Women's Role in the Household Survival of the Rural Poor: The Case of the Sugar-cane Workers in Negros Occidental 9 Women Plantation Workers and Economic Crisis in Cameroon

'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