Family and Colour in JamaicaEyre & Spottiswoode, 1953 - 196 pages |
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Page 72
... tends to improve on the land settlements under indirect government supervision . But the houses of the lower class in the town proper and the surrounding districts tend , with few exceptions , to be simple one storey structures of wood ...
... tends to improve on the land settlements under indirect government supervision . But the houses of the lower class in the town proper and the surrounding districts tend , with few exceptions , to be simple one storey structures of wood ...
Page 91
... tend to migrate in search of work in the off season . A regular pattern is for a man to work on the estate in crop time and then to drift to the town in the off season in the hope of finding casual employment there . He tends to have a ...
... tend to migrate in search of work in the off season . A regular pattern is for a man to work on the estate in crop time and then to drift to the town in the off season in the hope of finding casual employment there . He tends to have a ...
Page 110
Fernando Henriques. amongst the couples who have been together only a few years and tend to disappear as the ... tends to drive the man away as it makes greater demands on his income . It can be seen from the description of types B , C ...
Fernando Henriques. amongst the couples who have been together only a few years and tend to disappear as the ... tends to drive the man away as it makes greater demands on his income . It can be seen from the description of types B , C ...
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