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When a government program brought garment factories to rural Sri Lanka, women workers found themselves caught between the pressures of a globalizing economy and

Anthropologist Sandya Hewamanne spent time in a Sri Lankan free trade zone (FTZ) working and living among the workers to learn about their lives. "They were poo

The general perception of the garment and textile industry in the global South is fueled only by images of dismal labor conditions and unsuitable factories, des

Explores how labour struggles in the post-1977 period in Sri Lanka provided important resistance to capitalist processes.

Unmaking the Global Sweatshop gathers the work of leading anthropologists and ethnographers studying the global garment industry's impact on workers' well-being