"This book provides a detailed examination of the impact of globalisation on plantation labour, dominated by women labour, in India. The studies presented here highlight the perpetuation of low wages, inferior social status and low human development of workers in this sector and point out the...

1. Globalisation, inclusive development and plantation labour : an introduction / K.J. Joseph and P.K. Viswanathan -- 2. Wages, mobility and labour market institutions in tea plantations : the case of West Bengal and Assam / Kingshuk Sarkar -- 3. Women's labour in the tea sector : changing...

Global highlands : in context, in theory, and in practice -- Economic ideology in culture : oral tradition -- Economic ideology in petty industrial production : tailors of San Francisco el Alto -- Economic ideology in petty commodity agricultural production : gardeners of San Pedro Almolonga --...

Canadians produce a lot of food, but harvesting that food has increasingly meant relying on a growing force of temporary foreign workers (TFWs). In 2020, however, border restrictions imposed by Canadian governments to control the spread of the novel coronavirus, and perhaps the reluctance of...

chapter 1 Peripheral labour: Theoretical premises -- chapter 2 Periphery in the making -- chapter 3 Structure, dynamics and the hegemony of European capital -- chapter 4 Plantation worker-families: Sources, social origins and gender divisions -- chapter 5 Slaves reborn? The...