Pandemic, Lockdown and Modern Slavery among Sri Lanka's Global Assembly Line Workers

Pandemic, Lockdown and Modern Slavery among Sri Lanka's Global Assembly Line Workers

This article explores how the COVID-19 pandemic and the lock down had increased global assembly line workers' vulnerability to several forms of modern slavery. It focuses on two groups of women workers associated with global production in Sri Lanka. First, the daily-hired workers in the Katunay...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of international women's studies 2021, Vol.22 (1), p.54-69
1. Verfasser: Hewamanne, Sandya
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Assembly lines
Civil rights
COVID-19
Decision making
Developing countries
Economic aspects
Epidemics
Ethics
Factories
Female employees
Free trade
Income
Industrial tribunals
Industrial workers
International trade
Labor shortages
LDCs
Livelihood
Manufacturing
Marginality
Outsourcing
Pandemics
Personal safety
Positioning
Rural areas
Slavery
Social aspects
Social classes
Social status
Sri Lanka
Structural adjustment
Subcontractors
Transnationalism
Villages
Vulnerability
Wages & salaries
Women
Workers
Working conditions
Working women
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Zusammenfassung:This article explores how the COVID-19 pandemic and the lock down had increased global assembly line workers' vulnerability to several forms of modern slavery. It focuses on two groups of women workers associated with global production in Sri Lanka. First, the daily-hired workers in the Katunayake and Biyagama Free Trade Zones (FTZ) and second the former global factory workers now settled in villages and operating as home subcontractors.
ISSN:1539-8706
1539-8706