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 Unfolding Crisis in Assam's Tea Plantations: Employment and Occupational Mobility By Deepak K. Mishra, Vandana Upadhyay, Atul Sarma 2012 | 278 Pages | ISBN: 0415523087 | PDF | 2 MB As the Indian economy integrates into global circuits of production, exchange and accumulation, the burdens of adjustment are shared unequally by different sectors, classes and regions. This study unravels the livelihood strategies and living conditions of labour in the tea gardens of Assam. The tea sector has been undergoing a crisis since the 1990s, with stagnant production, decline in exports, and closures of many tea gardens leading to large-scale retrenchments in the labour force. Based on a detailed analysis of secondary data and primary field research, the study examines the extent, types and implications of inter-generational occupational mobility (or immobility) among tea garden labourers in Assam. In the process, it reflects on how even a sector that had brought capital and labour from outside and contributed significantly to the country's export earnings failed to create dynamic growth linkages within the local economy. The experience of the labour force in the Assam tea sector, the authors argue, is important for making sense not only of the development dynamics of the region, but of the contradictory ways in which forces of globalisation and neo-liberal reforms have been reshaping the worlds of labourers in the margins. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of labour studies, development studies, management studies, and studies of north-east India, as well as to policy-makers and those in the tea industry.  Geordie Buxton, "Haunted Plantations: Ghosts of Slavery and Legends of the Cotton Kingdoms " English | ISBN: 0738525014 | 2007 | 128 pages | EPUB | 9 MB These stories and more are wrenched from the gravest parts of America's past-real lives of people on plantations from Savannah and the coast of the Carolinas.  Global Plantations in the Modern World: Sovereignties, Ecologies, Afterlives English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031085361 | 520 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 32 MB Taking a multidisciplinary and global approach, this edited book examines the dynamic role of plantations as productive, socio-political and ecological forms throughout imperial and post-colonial worlds spanning multiple and broad temporalities. Showcasing an expansive range of case studies across different geographies, the collection sheds light on the heterogeneity of plantations and offers insights into the afterlives, spectres and remnants of systems that have been analysed as schemes of production, extraction and authority. Focusing on the expansion of plantation systems throughout various political-economic and ecological projects, and across the modern (and post-modern) period, allows the authors to move beyond analyses that often deal with individual empires through human-centered lenses. The contributors explore resistance to the mechanisms of extraction and control that plantations and their afterlives demanded, shedding light on their excesses, contradictions, failures and deviations. Offering a comprehensive treatment of global plantations, this book provides valuable reading for researchers with an interest in the socio-political and environmental effects of colonialism and imperialism in their various guises.  Markus Kröger, "Extractivisms, Existences and Extinctions: Monoculture Plantations and Amazon Deforestation " English | ISBN: 0367610302 | 2021 | 156 pages | EPUB | 1279 KB This book explores the existential redistributions that extractivist frontiers create, going beyond existing studies by bringing into the English-language discussion much of the wisdom from Latin American rural and forest communities' understandings of extractivist phenomena, and the destruction and changes in lives and lived environments they create.  Brett M. Bennett, "Plantations and Protected Areas: A Global History of Forest Management" English | 2015 | ISBN: 0262029936 | PDF | pages: 217 | 1.2 mb How global forest management shifted from an integrated conservation model to a bifurcated system of timber plantations and protected areas. |
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