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STiR tea & coffee industry international 67 workers that could not easily find jobs and chose to remain in the estate housing, subsisting on meager food allotments. As many as 30,000 workers remain on these sites, victims of dysfunctional legal and financial entanglements that discourage and even penalize new owners from taking over these gardens. Even in the best of times gardens face a disruptive cycle as workers struggle to improve their situation through strikes, protests, and occasinal violence. Labor laws from the 1950s designed to increase employment hold down wages. Mandated entitlements seem outdated. The Planta- tion Labour Act of 1951, the primary rules governing plantations with 15 or more workers, legalizes work by adolescents (age 14-18) and is silent on worker safety, occu- pational health, and environmental issues. KDHP does so much more – its lead- ership empowers workers. How it works When offered the opportunity 97% of those eligible to purchase stock did so. At the onset the average field worker invested 328 shares valued at INRs3,280. The 600 mem- bers of the management team took larger stakes to capitalize the company. Thomas' personal commitment is quite remarkable. He invested his life's fortune in the venture. Alexander so believed in the experiment that he bought 10 million shares, spending J. Fr. Scheibler GmbH & Co. KG · Trostbrücke 4 · 20457 Hamburg · Germany Phone +49 (0)40 / 37 85 89 - 0 · E-Mail tea@jfstea.de · Web www.jfstea.de Scan QR-Code with your mobile and visit JFS online! Tradition in Tea since 1834 The Chundavurrai Factory can process 106,000 kilos of green leaf per day making it one of the world's largest orthodox black tea factories.