"plantation" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Known as 'blackbirding', men were carted off to provide plantation labour in northern Australia and Fiji.
- Yellows usually did plantation labor, factory work, unskilled labor, and minimum wage jobs.
- They must now depend on intermittent plantation labor, primitive low yield cultivation in restricted areas, liaisons with forest product smugglers and poachers, government programs and charity.
- The camp housed German prisoners who were deployed as plantation labor.
- He enforced a harsh regimen of plantation labor, described by the historian Michel-Rolph Trouillot as caporalisme agraire (agrarian militarism).
- The minimum wages ordinance was extended to plantation labour in 1927 marginally raising the wages that had not changed since the 19th century.
- These efforts, however, were not successful until the 1860s because of the continued demand for plantation labor in the New World.
- Failure to procure plantation labor from other sources made importing slaves from Africa the main supply of labor on the Danish West Indies islands.
- Assuming blacks were either inherently lazy or simply determined to escape plantation labor, they demanded that the Army force the freed slaves back into the fields.
- The slaves weren't plantation labor, because there weren't any plantations - they had specific skills.
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