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Rice harvesting and social change in Javaarticle 2000 • White, Benjamin
Javanese • Asia > Southeast Asia
This paper discusses changes in the organization of agrarian labor in 'Kali Loro', a village in south central Java, Indonesia. The focus is on the ways in which rice harvesting labor has been recruited and remunerated from the early 1970s to late 199...Production and reproduction in a Javanese villageBook 1982 • White, Benjamin Nicholas Forbes
Javanese • Asia > Southeast Asia
This source examines population increase in Java by examining the costs and benefits of children to peasant households. The author argues that the benefits of children to their parents in terms of work done, income, security, and savings outweigh the...