Explain the conditions of indentured labour who went to work in different part of the world?
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Answer:
The conditions of indentured workers can be described as follows::-
- Sever punishment was given to those who tried to escape or run away from their place of work.
- the labourers were subjected to in human and pathetic living conditions.
- they were not given any legal rights of their own....
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a. Indentured labourers were basically bonded labourers who worked under a contract for an employer to another country,
b. With the growth in British industrial economy, the demand for labour further increased. The 19th century witnessed further changes in the labour pattern movement with the indentured labour migration from India
c. They were hired on contractual basis for a specific period to work on a plantation and were promised return to the native country
d. Employers engaged agents and paid them commission to recruit the labour. Agents provide false information about the prospect of work , nature of living and working conditions.Those not willing were abducted by the agents used by the employers.
e. In Africa, European employers to recruit labour for mines and plantations used the methods like imposing heavy taxes. Employers also changed the inheritance laws and Confined the mine workers.
f., Indentured labours were basically victim of colonial policies who were rendered unemployed in their native regions and were forced to migrate in search of jobs.
g. We may give example, indentured labour migration from India, who went to work in plantations, mines , road and railways projects. They mainly migrated to the British controlled Caribbean islands and Ceylon.
h. Indentured labour lived in extreme poor condition and misery , many of them were confined.
Those who tried to eascpe were severy punished