Colonial Mechanism on Plantation Organization : Case Study of Women Worker Marginalization in West Java Plantation

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10.2991/isclo-15.2016.42How to use a DOI?

Keywords

organizational communication, postcolonial, women labour, marginalization, corporate colonization theory.

Abstract

This paper engages in a controversy that colonialism does not end although the colony had been declared their freedom, it is exist across time. The residual effect of colonial domination on Indonesian culture can be proved in plantation area. The victim from this colonial mechanism is women labour. Colonial culture was imposed on them constitutes a large portion of the field of study for postcolonial critics. This paper examines colonial mechanism as part of organization communication and tried to reveal women labour experience in postcolonial paradigm. Using Deetz' Corporate Colonization Theory this research pays attention to political relationship to women, using historical background and social contructionist view. Deetz' s theory proposed that the development of more participatory conceptions and practices of communications as core in working environment and based on tie meaning in religion, family and community.As a qualitative research with fenomenological perspective, the primary data was collected through field observation and depth interview twelve tea picker women in West Java plantation area. For six months the reseacher construct the meaning of working in colonial mechanism. In constructivism paradigm of communication, data validation gained from source triangulation technique. For the conclusion, researcher finds that colonial mechanism constructed through corporate culture specially in daily conversation and corporate norms. Historically oppression on tea picker women' s life had been inherited since Dutch colonial era. This research reveals that women never had a chance to pursue their choices. Their life is in tea plantation. Working and raising their family. It is recommended that future research could help tea picker women to be more dependent to see and choose the best for them.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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