2020年9月22日 · The descendants of Indian Tamil tea plantation workers remain stuck at the bottom of Sri Lankan society. Many of them continue to work under harsh conditions for a …

Even today, tea leaves in Sri Lanka are plucked by hand, a time-consuming and labor-intensive task to ensure that only the tender leaves are selected. To meet the labor demands, …

2021年8月22日 · Tea plantation workers in Sri Lanka put hours of hard work into the job. However, workers, including child workers, are often exploited and unfairly compensated. …

2024年6月20日 · Behind every cup of world-famous Ceylon tea, there is a story of exploitation and bonded labor, says Apostolic Carmel Sr. Maria Amali, whose congregation has worked …

2024年6月25日 · Nearly half a million people in Sri Lanka work in tea and rubber plantation, around 4.3% of Sri Lanka’s population. The tea and rubber plantation industry are sustained …

Bonded labour is widespread in tea plantations in Sri Lanka. Dalits constitute 83 percent of the total of 3.6 million workers that live in the plantation communities. Most of them are Tamil …

1 天前 · A typical plantation laborer often traverses the hilly, leech-ridden footpaths without shoes, plucking tea and carrying it in a heavy basket on their back – while earning 1,350 Sri Lankan …

Most of the workers in the tea estates reside within the estate area. They are housed in rows of rooms, which are generally called labour lines in Sri Lanka. The clusters of the labour lines are …

2024年6月6日 · The COVID-19 pandemic and the economic crisis also acutely affected the tea industry, with tea production down by nearly a quarter, the effects of which have largely been …

This paper examines idiosyncrasies of tea plantation culture and politics in relation to Sri Lankan national and popular cultural typologies, with special reference to female tea plantation …