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Les formes d'organisations agricoles hautement capitalistiques, portées par des multinationales ou des fonds souverains, voient leur importance croitre à l'échelle mondiale. Cet article participe à la caractérisation de la forme capitaliste que sont ces agricultures dites de firme, en s'appuyant sur le cas des grandes plantations industrielles indonésiennes. Il propose une relecture de l'histoire de ces plantations mobilisant la notion d'esprit du capitalisme, au sein de laquelle s'articulent les concepts de capitalisme et de critique associée. En s'appuyant sur des ressources bibliographiques et des observations dans des plantations, cette approche permet de déterminer les différentes formes de contrôle de la main d'oeuvre qui se succèdent dans le temps. Le statut ouvrier s'est construit progressivement par la relation dialectique entre les politiques des dirigeants capitalistes et les mouvements de luttes syndicales des ouvriers, en relation avec la constitution de l'Etat indonésien. Une politique de contrôle paternaliste conjuguée à la possibilité pour les ouvriers de développer des stratégies économiques autonomes explique le succès actuel de ce modèle. Le paternalisme, organisation capitaliste désuète en Europe, apparait ici comme l'élément central d'un modèle en expansion, questionnant alors les différentes étapes de l'esprit du capitalisme.

Published some thirty years ago, Robert Manson Myers's Children of Pride: The True Story of Georgia and the Civil War won the National Book Award in history and went on to become a classic reference on America's slaveholding South. That book presented the letters of the prominent Presbyterian minister and plantation patriarch Charles Colcock Jones (1804-1863), whose family owned more than one hundred slaves. While extensive, these letters can provide only one part of the story of the Jones family plantations in coastal Georgia. In this remarkable new book, the religious historian Erskine Clarke completes the story, offering a narrative history of four generations of the plantations' inhabitants, white and black.Encompassing the years 1805 to 1869, Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic describes the simultaneous but vastly different experiences of slave and slave owner. This "upstairsdownstairs" history reveals in detail how the benevolent impulses of Jones and his family became ideological supports for deep oppression, and how the slave Lizzy Jones and members of her family struggled against that oppression. Through letters, plantation and church records, court documents, slave narratives, archaeological findings, and the memory of the African-American community, Clarke brings to light the long-suppressed history of the slaves of the Jones plantations-a history inseparably bound to that of their white owners

Women Plantation Workers: International Experiences. Shobhita Jain and Rhoda Reddock. eds. New York: Berg. 1998.186 pp.

Government policy aims to increase the area under forestry in Ireland from its current 10% to 17% by 2030. Baseline information on the biodiversity of these forestry plantations is required if they are to be effectively managed, particularly in the hght of Ireland?s commitment to Sustainable Forest Management (SFM). Epiphytes are an important but little studied component of forest biodiversity in Ireland. No previous studies have been undertaken on epiphytes in Irish forestry plantations. This study is therefore innovative and attempts to address this major information gap. ; TARA (Trinity?s Access to Research Archive) has a robust takedown policy. Please contact us if you have any concerns: rssadmin@tcd.ie

Intro -- Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Plates -- List of Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Parish Distribution and Size of Properties -- 2. The Coffee Planters -- 3. Planting and Processing -- 4. Labour Management, Work Regimen and Resistance -- 5. Profitability and Decline -- 6. Emancipation and Labour -- Conclusion: Jamaican Coffee in the Age of Global Transformation -- APPENDICES -- Appendix 1. Parish Distribution of Coffee-Producing Properties in Jamaica, 1799 and 1836 -- Appendix 2. Frequency Acreage of Coffee Properties, 1832 -- Appendix 3. Frequency Number of Enslaved Workers on Coffee Properties, 1818 and 1832 -- Appendix 4. Enslaved Females Assigned to Field Work on Maryland Plantation, St Andrew, 1818 -- Appendix 5. Abandoned Coffee Plantations, 1832-1848 -- Appendix 6. Coffee Plantations in Production in Jamaica, 1899 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

"This book provides a detailed examination of the impact of globalisation on plantation labour, dominated by women labour, in India. The studies presented here highlight the perpetuation of low wages, inferior social status and low human development of workers in this sector and point out the movement of labour away from this sector and the resultant labour shortage. It also highlights the perils involved in doing away with the Plantation Labour Act 1951 and provides a plausible way forward for improving the conditions of plantation workers."--

Plantations, which originated as agricultural enterprises within colonial economic systems and which came to be established particularly in tropical dependencies, have occupied an equivocal position in the economic development philosophies and plans of less developed countries. Their colonial origin and their traditionally export-oriented and often mono-cultural characteristics have subjected them to a wide range of adverse criticism, despite their undoubted earning capacity.