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Class, Patriarchy and Ethnicity in Sri Lankan Plantations

Two Centuries of Power and Protest

Author : Jayawardena, K. , Kurian, R.

Publisher: Orient Black Swan

Place of Publish: India’ Hyperbad

Year: 2015

Page Numbers: 347

Acc. No: 4834

Class No: 338.1 JAY-SL

Category: Books & Reports

Subjects: Agriculture

Type of Resource: Monograph

Languages: English

ISBN: 978-81-250-5878-6

Class, Patriarchy and Ethnicity on Sri Lankan Plantations takes as its central theme the plantations of Sri Lanka, from their inception in the early nineteenth century to almost the present day in the twenty-first. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, it offers a detailed and compelling empirical narrative of the lives and struggles of plantation workers, who have constituted, for much of modern Sri Lankan history, the single largest organised workforce in the country. In doing so, it explores the complex links between power and class, gender and ethnic hierarchies both on the plantations and outside and crucially situates the labour movement on the plantations within the wider political and social economy of Sri Lanka. http://orientblackswan.com/BookDescriptionisbn=978-81-250-5878-6&id=15&t=c