Living conditions on the sugar cane plantations, on which most of the "girmityas" (indentured labourers) worked, were often squalid, degrading and brutal.
There is a lot of pent-up anger among the garment labourers who work in extremely stressful conditions and are not allowed to unionise to voice their demands.
Not every adult's occupation was recorded, but where the census taker kept a record, he described most individuals as crofters, agricultural labourers, or farm servants.
