Plantation Women and Children

Daniëlle Teeuwen
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In the period 1870-1940 over a million Javanese labourers travelled to Sumatra hoping for a better life. Although the literature focuses on the labour activities, working conditions, and wages of male workers, especially from 1900 onwards a substantial part of the hired labourers were women and children. This paper argues that in the late colonial period attempts were made to improve the conditions for  family life on the plantations. These policies were aimed at creating a stable pool of workers in a context of widespread labour scarcity. However, improvements were slow, and when a labour surplus occurred during the Great Depression, women's wages and contracts were affected most, which shows the gendered labour policies on the plantations were very much driven by an economic rationale. 
种植园妇女和儿童
1870年至1940年间,超过一百万爪哇劳工前往苏门答腊岛,希望过上更好的生活。虽然文献集中于男性工人的劳动活动、工作条件和工资,特别是从1900年开始,但雇用工人的很大一部分是妇女和儿童。本文认为,在殖民后期,人们试图改善种植园家庭的生活条件。这些政策的目的是在劳动力普遍短缺的情况下建立一个稳定的工人队伍。然而,改善是缓慢的,当大萧条期间出现劳动力过剩时,妇女的工资和合同受到的影响最大,这表明种植园的性别劳动政策在很大程度上是由经济原理驱动的。
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