essay
The labour force in the Jamaican sugar industry
Work and family life; West Indian perspectives • Garden City, New York • Published In 1973 • Pages: 128-154
By: Davison, R. B..
Abstract
This chapter in an edited volume is an excerpt from a report on labor in the Jamaican sugar industry commissioned by the Sugar Manufacturers Association of Jamaica. It provides information about how sugar cane is grown and harvested on sugar estates, the different jobs involved and the social status of those jobs, productivity, mechanization, labor supply and recruitment, workers’ attitudes, the feeding and housing of workers, and the use of ganja, gambling, and drinking by the workers as release mechanisms. Because this information is part of a larger work, no general conclusions about labor and the sugar industry are offered. The author does, however, make recommendations about specific situations, such as room and board for workers.
- Subjects
- Special crops
- Labor and leisure
- Labor supply and employment
- Wages and salaries
- Labor relations
- culture
- Jamaicans
- Region
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub Region
- Caribbean
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Economist-5
- Analyst
- Heather Fellows ; Marlene Martin ; 1976
- Field Date
- 1965
- Coverage Date
- 1944-1973
- Coverage Place
- St James Parish, Jamaica; Clarendon Parish, Jamaica; Vere Plains, Clarendon Parish, Jamaica
- Notes
- R. B. Davison
- LCCN
- 72084900
- LCSH
- \\Jamaica--Social conditions\\Sugar plantations