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Harvesting consent: South Asian tea plantation workers’ experience of Fairtrade certification: Table 1

Harvesting consent: South Asian tea plantation workers’ experience of Fairtrade certification
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table of contents
  1. Abstract
  2. 1. Introduction
  3. 2. Labor governance in the tea value chain
  4. 3. Manufacturing consent through workplace ‘games’
  5. 4. Methodology
  6. 5. How Fairtrade helps harvesting tea plantation workers’ consent
    1. 5.1. ‘If we work more, we get more funds’ – certifying workers’ commitment rather than management compliance
    2. 5.2. ‘People won't utter a word against those to whom they are indebted’ – using premium funds for labor governance
    3. 5.3. ‘After getting Fairtrade benefits, we get motivated to work’ – playing workplace games in the tea estate?
    4. 5.4. ‘They work faster and the company is benefited’ – aligning workers’ interests with management's through training
  7. 6. Conclusion and outlook
  8. Notes
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Disclosure statement
  11. Funding
  12. Notes on contributor
  13. References

Table 1. Tea plantation workers’ daily base wages and tea pluckers’ harvesting targets by state, 2016.
State/countryBase wage (US$)Harvesting target (kg)
Kerala4.2927
Tamil Nadu3.4224
Assam1.7924
Sri Lanka2.9016
Source: Modes are calculated from the worker survey.
Note: During the time of the field research, 1 US$ equaled LKR 137.13 and INR 64.75 (based on oanda.com).

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