Plantation Life: Corporate Occupation in Indonesia's Oil Palm Zone

by Tania Murray Li

Book Overview

In Plantation Life Tania Murray Li and Pujo Semedi examine the structure and governance of Indonesia's contemporary oil palm plantations in Indonesia, which supply 50 percent of the world's palm oil. They attend to the exploitative nature of plantation life, wherein villagers' well-being is sacrificed in the name of economic development. While plantations are often plagued by ruined ecologies, injury among workers, and a devastating loss of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478014954
• ISBN13: 9781478014959
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"