Family and Colour in JamaicaEyre & Spottiswoode, 1953 - 196 pages |
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Page 20
... less assured . Why worry to install new machinery or leave land fallow to recover when there was good money to be had for every hogshead produced ? With uneconomic methods may be coupled another factor - absenteeism . Absenteeism took a ...
... less assured . Why worry to install new machinery or leave land fallow to recover when there was good money to be had for every hogshead produced ? With uneconomic methods may be coupled another factor - absenteeism . Absenteeism took a ...
Page 24
... less than 5,724 were from the Gold Coast - that is Koromantyn.2 Mention is also made of the Madagass from Madagascar . They were lighter in colour than the average Negro from the Gold Coast , and their hair was less woolly . In the ...
... less than 5,724 were from the Gold Coast - that is Koromantyn.2 Mention is also made of the Madagass from Madagascar . They were lighter in colour than the average Negro from the Gold Coast , and their hair was less woolly . In the ...
Page 157
... less conflict between the parents and children . Such conflicts as do occur are concerned with extravagant expenditure and the use of the family car , rather than with leaving home and the kind of career to be chosen . The upper class ...
... less conflict between the parents and children . Such conflicts as do occur are concerned with extravagant expenditure and the use of the family car , rather than with leaving home and the kind of career to be chosen . The upper class ...
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