International Federation of Master Cotton Spinners' and Manufacturers' Associations, Pearse, Arno Smith, 1872- · [Manchester] · leaf 206
Assam the companies send duffardars, a kindof foremen, to recruit labour. Every new labourer receives an advanceas soon as he agrees to hire himself out. The duffardars act alwaysas a kind of foremen over their workers. It is to them that the wagesare paid, and in case of disputes they approach the… … Assam Women on a Fishing Expedition,do not work in the fields, but seem to spend their time fishiru in the many dykes that abound in that part of the country. The possibilities of Assam are hardly known yet. Itis, however, patent to every traveller wrho visits thatcountry that it is enormously rich…
Cotton manufacture · Cotton trade
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