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120 intro-village class structure as stolen pts. out, "In Sumatra class distinctions are extra-village (between workers +estate) inter-ethnic." [[margins]] p 36 [[ margins]] wealthy villagers do not have power of giving work; work opportunities obtained by approaching labor recruiters who are usually non-Jav. children seldom want to help on their parents fields, preferring to sell their labor to the estates; this a major source of domestic conflict households less cohesive than on Java tho children still viewed as an important security in old age for their parents, not a means of in- creaking labor intensification in agr. [[margin]] pg 37 [[margin]] households with several members absent for months + even years at a time is the rule rather than the exception (continued WID book 2)