Power structure, discipline and labour in tea plantations in Assam under colonial rule
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https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-9222.2010v2n3p12Keywords:
labor relations in India, tea plantations, indentured laborAbstract
The article is concerned with the tea plantations in the AssamValley, India, between 1840 and the end of colonial rule, in the 1940's. Those agricultural enterprises employed about 500 thousand workers in the first half of the twentieth Century . The central focus of the article concerns with the labor relations, based on the indenture system and with the strategies used by the enterprises to prevent the formation of labor collective organization. The labor regulations under colonial rule are also a subject of the article, that emphasizes the efforts of the employers of tea plantations to influence the elaboration of the laws and to control the rule of that laws in accord with theirstrategies of labor force control.
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