"Plantation workers" refers to individuals who work on plantations, which are large agricultural estates typically dedicated to the production of crops such as sugarcane, coffee, or bananas. These workers are involved in various tasks like planting, cultivating, and harvesting crops on the plantation.
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Nothing comes for cheap — and though bananas may be the cheapest fruit in your basket, it's often at the expense
of plantation workers.
It is an authentic community whose friendly long - time residents go back generations to
sugar plantation workers who were immigrants largely from Japan and the Philippines.
necdotal evidence that cancer is rarer among sugar cane
plantation workers who consume this substance regularly.
The article also quotes anecdotal evidence that cancer is rarer among sugar
cane plantation workers who consume this substance regularly.
There was the massacre of
banana plantation workers snatched from their homes in 1988 that provoked her sculptures in the late 1980s and 1990.
candidates, the group is completing a qualitative study on the economic barriers to secondary education access for the
tea plantation worker community of central Sri Lanka.
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.
Shave ice gained worldwide popularity after
Japanese plantation workers immigrated to Hawaii, and today, visitors can enjoy this dessert all over 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.
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.
The small cottages in Koloa you'll see are also known as cane houses because
plantation workers once lived in such structures.
The cry of Asian people for justice has risen up from indigenous Hawaiians and
Filipino plantation workers, as well as from Japanese - Americans placed in internment camps in 1942.
Worker Exploitation: Many banana
plantation workers work long hours in difficult conditions - handling pesticides and herbicides without sufficient protection - for low wages and poor job security.
Rubber plantation workers and others tend to spend several nights at a time in the forest, where transmission occurs, sleeping outside in hammocks.
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.
Maui's «mixed plate» ethnic community was driven by
immigrant plantation workers, and in addition to a look at the gasping sugar industry, this museum explores Maui's different ethnic groups and the traditions they brought from home.
She's currently in the process of working with the Cercle d'Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise (Congolese Plantation Workers Art League), with whom she'll show sculptures made by
artist plantation workers based in Kinshasa, the capital of Congo.
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.
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.
After the event, Laidre heard a story from a
local plantation worker who had witnessed something similar a couple of years earlier.
Its roots are in the experience of 19th - century sugar -
cane plantation workers, who in pidgin English told stories of common suffering and hope.
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.
This year, she collaborated with a group of
Congolese plantation workers (known as Cercle d'Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise) to produce a series of chocolate sculptures.
It is most remembered by local families for its pig farm, in which hogs were raised to feed the many
sugar plantation workers.
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.
As it turned out, that amiable, ambling Ozark, Ernest Joe (Dutch) Harrison, won the tournament, his umpteenth in a career which has seen him come from
a plantation worker's son in Arkansas to golf's ninth alltime money winner ($ 154,000).
Later, the group bought them back for 25,000 taka each, equal to nearly a year's wages for
a plantation worker.
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.
The plantation workers are resentful, the neighbors, and her new sister - in - law, treacherous.
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.
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
Several attended college on swim scholarships, something that most likely would never have been possible for
a plantation worker's child.
The plantation workers were usually hired as needed and paid by the «task» - work covering 75 feet by 75 feet - except when they were contracted for longer periods; then they were paid a regular salary
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.
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.