Gender, Ethnicity and Employment in War and Peace
Relations in Sri Lanka’s Free Trade Zones
Gender, Ethnicity and Employment in War and Peace
Relations in Sri Lanka’s Free Trade Zones
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Description
Gender, Ethnicity and Employment in War and Peace is a timely and innovative feminist international political economy analysis of the changing contours of employment relations regimes in global supply chains. Focused on the changes in one global factory, Gupta Garments Katunayake (GGK), situated in the Katunayake Free Trade Zone in Sri Lanka, the book takes a long-range approach to understanding the relationship between gender, development, security, and employment relations, through the separatist war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE, 1983-2009) and post-war periods in Sri Lanka. Presenting a unique longitudinal ethnography spanning 15 years, the book looks at how employment relations regimes contribute to or detract from women's (in)security in war and post-war contexts. Arguing for a focus on the material relations of production embedded in broader global structures, Gunawardana highlights how women workers and their advocates have continually worked together at times across ethnic divides, to redefine and demand greater economic and political security in various ways. This book enhances our understanding of security in local post-war contexts.
Table of Contents
List of illustrations, photos, maps, tables, and figures
Acknowledgements
Note on translations, transliteration, list of translated words
Acronyms
Introduction
1. Employment relations regimes and women's security in war and post-war settings
2. Variegation through war and peace: Gender and employment relations in the Katunayake Free Trade Zone 2003-2017
3. Joining the target war: Gupta Garments, Katunayake
4. Gender and ethnicity: Informing recruitment, determining outcomes?
5. Love in the time of global production: from paternalism and teamwork to post-war development and peace
6. Workers constituting the employment system: resistance and fragmented solidarities
Conclusion. What is to be done?
Product details
| Published | Dec 11 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 240 |
| ISBN | 9781786609342 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 10 BW Illustrations, 10 Tables |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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