Informal Resistance on a Dominican Sugar Plantation During the Trujillo Dictatorship

Informal Resistance on a Dominican Sugar Plantation During the Trujillo Dictatorship

The cane cutters who toiled on the great foreign-owne sugar plantations of the twentieth-century Caribbean were sorne of the most exploited of Latin American wage workers. Employed only for the five-month sugar harvest, they did long hours of back-breaking work in stifling heat for barely subsistenc...

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Autor principal: Legrand, Catherine C.
Formato: Online
Idioma:spa
Publicado: Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD) 1996
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.uasd.edu.do/index.php/ecos/article/view/81
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spelling ECOSUASD812020-12-30T07:46:52Z Informal resistance on a dominican sugar plantation during the Trujillo dictatorship Informal Resistance on a Dominican Sugar Plantation During the Trujillo Dictatorship Legrand, Catherine C. dictadura República Dominicana plantación de azúcar dictatorship Dominican Republic sugar plantation The cane cutters who toiled on the great foreign-owne sugar plantations of the twentieth-century Caribbean were sorne of the most exploited of Latin American wage workers. Employed only for the five-month sugar harvest, they did long hours of back-breaking work in stifling heat for barely subsistence pay. Because the work was seasonal and many of the workers were temporary migrant laborers from other countries, unionization was difficult and legal protection minimal. The cane cutters who toiled on the great foreign-owne sugar plantations of the twentieth-century Caribbean were sorne of the most exploited of Latin American wage workers. Employed only for the five-month sugar harvest, they did long hours of back-breaking work in stifling heat for barely subsistence pay. Because the work was seasonal and many of the workers were temporary migrant laborers from other countries, unionization was difficult and legal protection minimal. Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD) 1996-10-04 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://revistas.uasd.edu.do/index.php/ecos/article/view/81 10.51274/ecos.v4i5.pp141-198 Journal ECOSUASD; Vol. 4 No. 5 (1996): ECOS; 141-198 Revista ECOSUASD; Vol. 4 Núm. 5 (1996): ECOS; 141-198 2676-0797 2310-0680 10.51274/ecos.v4i5.1996 spa https://revistas.uasd.edu.do/index.php/ecos/article/view/81/31 Derechos de autor 1996 Revista ECOS UASD https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
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description The cane cutters who toiled on the great foreign-owne sugar plantations of the twentieth-century Caribbean were sorne of the most exploited of Latin American wage workers. Employed only for the five-month sugar harvest, they did long hours of back-breaking work in stifling heat for barely subsistence pay. Because the work was seasonal and many of the workers were temporary migrant laborers from other countries, unionization was difficult and legal protection minimal.
title Informal Resistance on a Dominican Sugar Plantation During the Trujillo Dictatorship
title_short Informal Resistance on a Dominican Sugar Plantation During the Trujillo Dictatorship
title_full Informal Resistance on a Dominican Sugar Plantation During the Trujillo Dictatorship
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title_full_unstemmed Informal Resistance on a Dominican Sugar Plantation During the Trujillo Dictatorship
title_sort informal resistance on a dominican sugar plantation during the trujillo dictatorship
title_alt Informal resistance on a dominican sugar plantation during the Trujillo dictatorship
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