Labor on the Line
Justice at Work on Assam Tea Plantations
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Product details:
- Publisher Cornell University Press
- Date of Publication 15 October 2025
- ISBN 9781501783371
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages150 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 14 b&w halftones - 14 Halftones, black and white Halftones, black & white 700
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Long description:
Labor on the Line provides insights into the world's largest tea-growing region of Assam. Anna-Lena Wolf examines everyday conceptualizations of justice: how they emerge, become prevalent, transform, and are negotiated by differently positioned actors on Assam's tea plantations. Academics and activists have criticized the conditions on these plantations as a form of bondage, arguing that the persistence of a colonial wage structure - characterized by low cash wages supplemented with in-kind benefits - reinforces laborers' dependence on plantations. But Wolf shows that there is more to the story. Tea plantation laborers and trade unionists formed surprising alliances with managers and plantation owners based on everyday conceptions of justice. All involved favored the old-style plantation at a time when fundamental changes were appearing in the political economy of tea production.
Labor on the Line challenges the simplistic notion that dismantling tea plantations would create a better world for tea plantation laborers, by advancing notions of justice in innovative ways.
MoreTable of Contents:
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Introduction: Justice works!
1. Scales of justice within and beyond plantation ""enclaves""
2. Living from the tea leaves
3. Why tea plantation laborers do (not) rebel
4. Justice and categories of collective identification
5. Bungalow doctrines
Conclusion: Workings of justice within and beyond Assam tea plantations
