Women under indentured labour in colonial Natal, 1860-1911 by Jo Beall
… boys and 48 022 women and girls (Beall and North-Coombes, 1983: 67). This population was reduced by deaths and … of labour on the plantations (Beall and North-Coombes, 1983), reaching its peak when the rate was 95,25 per cent … labour force on the collieries (Beall and North-Coombes, 1983:54). Because 'free' Indians did not arrive in Natal with …