Sentence examples for indentured workers from inspiring English sources

Indentured workers from China and Malaysia followed.

In 1845 the immigration of indentured workers from the Indian subcontinent began; it continued until 1917.

It should not be in the business of creating a new class of "indentured" workers.

He seems to have viewed the colonists as his personal indentured workers on a sea cotton farming enterprise.

Tying this book to the last is the Ibis, a former slave ship carrying convicts and indentured workers to Mauritius.

From 1879, labour for Fiji's expanding sugar plantations was provided by the importation of indentured workers from India.

The H-1B visa program creates a form of indentured worker whose pay, on average, is lower than that of American counterparts, Mr. Krikorian contended.

The parallels between being a chattel slave by race and chattel as a wife, daughter or indentured worker turned abolitionists into suffragists, and vice versa.

A politician seems to be involved, also a ship's captain, also a battered prostitute, also a Chinese indentured worker, also a stoical Maori greenstone hunter, Te Rau Tauwhare ("His face was tattooed in a way that reminded Balfour of the wind patterns on a map").

Clearly many of his feelings about the countries he visits are rooted in his family background -- his grandfather, a Brahmin from Uttar Pradesh, India, came to Trinidad as an indentured worker -- and his fears, as he once put it, of "being swallowed up by the bush," by the "enemies of the civilization" he so prizes.

Ethnic Chinese and Malays, the descendants of indentured mine workers, make up 85 per cent of the population.