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..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Special crops
- Labor and leisure
- Labor supply and employment
- Wages and salaries
- Labor relations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Jamaicans
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Caribbean
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- EvaluationIn this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on. The second part is a ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- Economist-5
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Heather Fellows ; Marlene Martin ; 1976
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1965
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1944-1973
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- St James Parish, Jamaica; Clarendon Parish, Jamaica; Vere Plains, Clarendon Parish, Jamaica
- NotesAdditional notes
- R. B. Davison
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 72084900
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- \\Jamaica--Social conditions\\Sugar plantations