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1. Mules and machines and men: Field labor on Louisiana sugar plantations, 1887-1915.

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Reidy, Joseph P.

Subjects
*HISTORY of labor, *PLANTATIONS, *TECHNOLOGY & economics, *SUGAR growing, *TECHNOLOGICAL innovations, *HISTORY, LOUISIANA state history
Abstract

Focuses on the impact of machine technology, and applied science on field labor on Louisiana's sugar plantations in the 1880s. How sugar cane growers and manufacturers remained interconnected; Reference to the Sugar Trust, the conglomerate of refiners; Identification of some of the technological advances which impacted on field labor.

Published
1998

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