plantation workers
Agricultural estate employees
Plantation workers are laborers on large agricultural estates, historically associated with sugar, cotton, tobacco, and coffee cultivation.
The term often evokes the brutal history of enslaved Africans forced to work American and Caribbean plantations: Her ancestors were plantation workers in Virginia.
Today it describes agricultural laborers on large-scale farms worldwide, though working conditions remain controversial in many regions.
- hoeWeeding and tilling implement
- slaveryOwnership of people
- forced laborCompelled toil, no consent
- macheteHeavy broad-bladed knife
- backReverse side; support
indentured servant · sugarcane · harvest · sharecropper · company town · cotton · heat · chattel · colonialism · field hands · cane cutter · cocoa bean · cash crop · seasonal employment · labor camp · rubber tree · overseer · irrigator
- workersemployee, employees, laborer, laborers, wage earner
- colonial workersblacksmiths, carpenters, cobblers, coopers, craftsmen
- labor historyAFL-CIO, labor movement, CIO, laborers, unionization
- rural folkpeasantry, countryfolk, farmers, farmhands, farmworkers
- peoplesAmericans, British, Chinese, French, Germans
- demographicspopulation density, population growth, age distribution, population, gender ratio
plantation workersplantation owners
Large-scale agricultural landholders
landowners · planters · slaveholders · landlords · proprietors
plantation, plantations, plant, plants, planted, planting, planter, planters, transplant