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- catalog abstract "The lives of plantation laborers are usually depicted in terms reminiscent of eighteenth-century soldiering - nasty, brutish, and short. While the structures governing their lives varied from place to place and over time, the authoritarian and coercive nature of the plantation system itself remained pervasive. Recent research has shown, however, that the responses of plantation workers to the demands of their workplace were in fact quite variable, from acquiescence to outright rebellion, from collaboration with management to attempts to carve out private lives offering a sense of self-esteem. By focusing on the relationship between resistance and accommodation, Plantation Workers provides the first systematic examination of the kinds of responses offered to the plantation regime. The essays cast an analytical eye over the contexts of workers' lives within which resistance and accommodation were played out. Looking at these responses as two aspects of the same activity, contributors account for the circumstances under which worker resistance could be mounted and, conversely, employer pressure sustained. Most chapters focus on the Pacific Islands, but the collection includes studies from Latin America and Australia, enabling a comparative evaluation of the actual working experiences of plantation laborers and a more nuanced understanding of the people who labored in the "factories in the field." Plantation Workers is a valuable addition to Pacific Islands historiography, comparative labor history, the history of race relations, and peasant studies.".
- catalog contributor b4933482.
- catalog contributor b4933483.
- catalog contributor b4933484.
- catalog created "c1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "c1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Patterns of resistance and accommodation / Doug Munro -- Patterns of resistance and the social relations of production in Hawaii / Edward D. Beechert -- The counterculture of survival / Clive Moore -- Samoan plantations / Dough Munro and Stewart Firth -- "We do not come here to be beaten" / Judith A. Bennett -- "Nonresistance" on Fiji plantations / Brij V. Lal -- Hegemony and repression in rural Guatemala, 1871-1940 / David McCreery -- Structure of domination and forms of resistance on Yucatecan Estates during the late Pofiriato, ca. 1880-1915 / Allen Wells and Gilbert M. Joseph -- Planter control and worker resistance in northern Peru, 1880-1921 / Michael J. Gonzales -- Reflections / Edward D. Beechert.".
- catalog description "The lives of plantation laborers are usually depicted in terms reminiscent of eighteenth-century soldiering - nasty, brutish, and short. While the structures governing their lives varied from place to place and over time, the authoritarian and coercive nature of the plantation system itself remained pervasive. Recent research has shown, however, that the responses of plantation workers to the demands of their workplace were in fact quite variable, from acquiescence to outright rebellion, from collaboration with management to attempts to carve out private lives offering a sense of self-esteem. By focusing on the relationship between resistance and accommodation, Plantation Workers provides the first systematic examination of the kinds of responses offered to the plantation regime. The essays cast an analytical eye over the contexts of workers' lives within which resistance and accommodation were played out. Looking at these responses as two aspects of the same activity, contributors account for the circumstances under which worker resistance could be mounted and, conversely, employer pressure sustained. Most chapters focus on the Pacific Islands, but the collection includes studies from Latin America and Australia, enabling a comparative evaluation of the actual working experiences of plantation laborers and a more nuanced understanding of the people who labored in the "factories in the field." Plantation Workers is a valuable addition to Pacific Islands historiography, comparative labor history, the history of race relations, and peasant studies.".
- catalog extent "viii, 343 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Plantation workers.".
- catalog identifier "0824814967 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Plantation workers.".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "c1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press,".
- catalog relation "Plantation workers.".
- catalog spatial "Latin America".
- catalog spatial "Pacific Area".
- catalog subject "305.5/63 20".
- catalog subject "HD8039.P4962 P166 1993".
- catalog subject "Plantation workers Latin America Case studies.".
- catalog subject "Plantation workers Pacific Area Case studies.".
- catalog subject "Plantations Latin America History Case studies.".
- catalog subject "Plantations Pacific Area History Case studies.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Patterns of resistance and accommodation / Doug Munro -- Patterns of resistance and the social relations of production in Hawaii / Edward D. Beechert -- The counterculture of survival / Clive Moore -- Samoan plantations / Dough Munro and Stewart Firth -- "We do not come here to be beaten" / Judith A. Bennett -- "Nonresistance" on Fiji plantations / Brij V. Lal -- Hegemony and repression in rural Guatemala, 1871-1940 / David McCreery -- Structure of domination and forms of resistance on Yucatecan Estates during the late Pofiriato, ca. 1880-1915 / Allen Wells and Gilbert M. Joseph -- Planter control and worker resistance in northern Peru, 1880-1921 / Michael J. Gonzales -- Reflections / Edward D. Beechert.".
- catalog title "Plantation workers : resistance and accommodation / edited by Brij V. Lal, Doug Munro, and Edward D. Beechert.".
- catalog type "Case studies. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".