Open AccessInformal Resistance on a Dominican Sugar Plantation During the Trujillo Dictatorship
Author(s) -
Cathérine Legrand
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
revista eco
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2676-0797
DOI - 10.51274/ecos.v4i5.pp141-198
Subject(s) - subsistence agriculture , latin americans , wage , cane , work (physics) , dictatorship , sugar cane , resistance (ecology) , sugar , geography , agricultural economics , socioeconomics , economics , political science , labour economics , agriculture , agricultural science , biology , engineering , ecology , archaeology , law , politics , mechanical engineering , biochemistry , democracy
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.