Garments without Guilt?: Global Labour Justice and Ethical Codes in Sri Lankan Apparels
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Explores how labour struggles in the post-1977 period in Sri Lanka provided important resistance to capitalist processes. Cover Reviews Garments without Guilt? Title Copyright Dedication Epigraph Contents Tables, Figures and Images Preface and Acknowledgements Published Works and Funding Abbreviations 1 Introduction: Global Labour Justice via Ethical Codes? 2008: Global and Local Significance Sri Lankan Exceptionalism? Labouring and Producing Ethical Garments? Notes 2 Labouring for Apparels: Labour Geographies and Feminist Inflections Introduction Globalizing Garments Why Women Workers? Feminist Interventions across Time Potency of Labour? Labour Geographies, Agency and Power From Academic Interventions to Labour Activism Notes 3 Fieldwork: Prolonged Phases and Multiple Moments Introduction Multiple Belongings: Doing Fieldwork Back ‘Home’ Away from the FTZ and Colombo Sketching the Setting: Factory Profiles Elongated Research and Mingling Methods Notes 4 Clothing the World – Guilt Free?: Sri Lanka’s Apparel Landscape Introduction Benefits of Going Small? The Early Years to 2008 Value Upgrading to Valued Labour? 2008: Catalyst of Efficiencies, Effectiveness and Excellence? The Labour Question: Recruitment and Retention Capturing and Redistributing the Gains? Conclusion Notes 5 Neglected Labour Histories: The Sri Lankan State Responds to Labour Introduction Transitions: From Democratic Socialism to an Open Economy 1980 and 1982: Strength of Striking Taming Post-War Hubris via Labour Defiance Take Two: State Amnesia and Labour Reform Conclusion Notes 6 Ethicality with a Blind Eye?: Ethical Code Practices at Production Sites Introduction Ethical Codes: The Bedrock of Global Labour Justice? Buzzing Factories, Loud Music and Code Consciousness Code Observance: Safe Factories to Code Compliance? Contested Codes? The Continuum of Compliance Evolving Code Compliance: From Then to Now Slip Sliding: Overtime, Covering and Inhumane Treatment Blind-Eyed Ethical Sourcing: Corrupted Compliance? Conclusion Notes 7 From War to Work: Ethicality amidst Post-War Trauma? Introduction Magnanimous Capital? Respect, New Futures and Economic Freedom? Ethical Codes and Ethnic Markers Forced Labour? Slippery Slope: From Verbal Abuse to Inhumane Treatment? Job Creation without Living Wages Conclusion Notes 8 Concluding Thoughts: Grounded Governance? Introduction Scandal-Free Sri Lankan Apparel Firms? Ethical Codes Exposed? Notes Appendix Employment and Earnings in Sri Lanka’s Wearing Apparel Sector, 2008–2017 Index of Industrial Production (IIP) for Sri Lanka’s Apparel Sector, 2010–2016 References Index
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