Sentences with phrase «of plantation workers»

Nothing comes for cheap — and though bananas may be the cheapest fruit in your basket, it's often at the expense of plantation workers.

Most had been abandoned by abolition times, but the descendants of plantation workers still inhabit the island.

Not exact matches

Its roots are in the experience of 19th - century sugar - cane plantation workers, who in pidgin English told stories of common suffering and hope.

While workers were being drawn into the industrial labor force as individual breadwinners in Europe during the nineteenth century, for example, other workers in Europe's colonies were being drawn into a permanent state of dependence as producers of raw commodities — in mines and on plantations.

When the author recalls the long gallery of persons whom, in the course of this inquiry, he has come to know with the impetuous but temporary intimacy of the stranger — sharecroppers and plantation owners, workers and employers, merchants and bankers, intellectuals, preachers, organization leaders, political bosses, gangsters, black and white, men and women, young and old, Southerners and Northerners — the general observation retained is the following: Behind all outward dissimilarities, behind their contradictory valuations, rationalizations, vested interests, group allegiances and animosities, behind fears and defense constructions, behind the role they play in life and the mask they wear, people are all much alike on a fundamental level And they are all good people.

Visits to the workers» quarters of five Dominican plantations were enough to show us that the laborers were tied to the sugar fields as a goat is roped to a stake.

No one really knows why macaroni salad became a staple of the Hawaiian plate lunch and luaus; some say it came from the plantation workers, while others give credit to the Portuguese fishermen who worked the whaling boats from the Islands.

Palsgaard has been a member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) since 2008, and sees the topic of sustainability as an essential issue for protecting the global environment, upholding biodiversity and providing suitable working conditions for local plantation workers.

State Senator Adriano Espaillat has styled himself as a champion of agricultural laborers in New York — but fueling his bid for Congress are donations from a sugarcane plantation - owning clan with an international reputation for mistreating workers.

After the event, Laidre heard a story from a local plantation worker who had witnessed something similar a couple of years earlier.

Amba Estate, a 26 - acre tea plantation in Sri Lanka, shares 10 percent of its revenue with its workers.

This past January, master's candidates in the International Education Policy (IEP) Program traveled to Sri Lanka to conduct field interviews with tea plantation workers, government ministers, and leaders of international nonprofits for a research capstone project.

Highlights of the trip include meeting with the Honorable Minister of Education of Sri Lanka at the President's home, visiting with tea plantation workers and their local schools, and discussing the research topic with leaders of the Sri Lankan Commissions for UNESCO and UNICEF.

Told from the perspective of impetuous and inquisitive 10 - year - old orphan Sugar, Turpin's energetic performance depicts life on a Louisiana plantation in 1870, where sharecroppers work as slaves and newly acquired Chinese workers represent unwelcome competition.

Bright, retro - style cartoon scenes of happy workers in fields, plantations, orchards, and factories illustrate the journeys taken by major ingredients of bread, cheese, apple juice, carrots, tomatoes, clementines, and chocolate chips.

This is an interesting read for those interested in the full Japanese experience in Hawaii, from the early arrivals of sugar plantation workers to modern sports figures and politicians.

Read more >> A Wedding in Haiti by Julia Alvarez Algonquin, $ 22.95, 304 pages In her humorous and poignant memoir of a wedding and an earthquake in the Dominican Republic, novelist Julia Alvarez (How the García Girls Lost Their Accents) attempts to answer this question as she tells the tale of a young worker on her coffee plantation, Piti, and his efforts to make a life by traveling from his home in Haiti to work in the neighboring country.

This is an interesting read for those interested in the full Japanese experience in Hawaii, from the early arrivals of sugar plantation workers to mod

As he matures, his desire for grandeur and fame is channeled into shaping the fates of the impoverished and overlooked children of the Pu'unene sugarcane plantation workers.

The Waimea Plantation Cottages once housed plantation workers and have been renovated to retain their authentic Hawaiian roots: furnishings are made of wicker and rattan, and the upholsteries feature cheerful aloha prints.

Elements of the work include wall text around war, imperialism, and democracy, historical footage of US militarization contrasted with the ruins of contemporary bases, forms of labor and production in the industries of mining, fishing, and banana plantation interspersed with interviews with workers, and a lush, dreamlike, and perpetually dissolving set of landscapes set against some of Dizon's own reflections on life, death, land, return and passage.

Visitors will encounter references to the literal and metaphoric scars of the pine industry and the turpentine camps (not unlike the slave plantations once located on the same land), along with the music that grew out of this labor and the resilient spirit of the workers.

There was the massacre of banana plantation workers snatched from their homes in 1988 that provoked her sculptures in the late 1980s and 1990.

Using art objects commissioned by plantation owners for their mansions — among them the first landscape images painted in the region — the show also explores the culture of tobacco, its workers, its marketing, and its associations with modernity.

KOW gallerist Raphael Oberhuber, who shows work by a collective of Congolese plantation workers known as CATPC, said he approved of the shift in strategy for the section.

In this sculpture made entirely out of chocolate, Congolese plantation workers Jerémie Mabiala and Djonga Bismar render what they imagine «art collectors» to look like.

For more information on this sculpture (the profits from which will allow the plantation workers - cum - artists to buy back their land), see Amelia Ames's coverage of the best three - dimensional works at The Armory.

In my last post about my trip to Kenya to visit the Lipton Tea plantation, I talked about the benefits to the workers of the education of their children, and how the treatment of workers is one of the cornerstones of

«This is the first time any case for a banana worker has come before a U.S. court,» Duane Miller, one of the attorneys representing more than 30 Nicaraguan plaintiffs who worked on plantations from 1964 to 1990, tells BusinessWeek.According to one upcoming lawsuit that was filed in 2004, Dole Fresh Fruit Co. and Standard Fruit Co., now part of Dole, were not only negligent, but that they fraudulently concealed information about DBCP's effects.

Though there has been some controversy surrounding its effectiveness, the RSPO works with some 300 member companies to help ensure that no more rainforest is chopped down for palm oil plantations, that all plantations minimize their environmental impact, and that the rights of local people and plantation workers are respected in producing palm oil.

Ramón described a big flood that destroyed many of the banana plantations and coincided with a general labour strike in 1954, thanks to a constitutional reform that finally gave workers permission to organize.

Ramon Quisumbing, the managing partner, is representing two of the world's leading chemical companies in several damages and tort cases filed by several thousand banana plantation workers, which together constitute possibly the biggest such suits in the Philippines.