ABSTRACT
The plantations have been looked at as economic spaces with the workers as a homogenous class of victims. Problematising this dominant claim forms the core of this work. At most times, work-group formation remained subsumed in the rubric of friendship and mutual liking. The work-group formation illustrated that to a limited extent the women often play around with their identities to suit their self-interest by invoking certain aspects of the self at certain points of time. Everyday activisms are different from forms of everyday agency expressed through resistance, in relying on visibility, confrontations and spectacle in place of resistance's usual deception, manipulation and negotiation. Cornwall and Chambers have raised the fundamental question of whose voices are being captured by the development agencies and initiatives. This work demonstrates the workings of agency in the grassroots. Finally, the core of this work lay in the voice of the women.
