Research Catalog

Title

Garments without guilt? : global labour justice and ethical codes in Sri Lankan apparels / Kanchana N. Ruwanpura.

Author

Ruwanpura, Kanchana N.

Publication

• Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
• ©2022

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Details

Description

xxvi, 198 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"This book explores the ways in which labour struggles in the post-1977 period provided important resistance to capitalist processes and continue to shape the industry both within and outside of the shop floor. It studies contextual moments in the history of Sri Lanka to rupture the dominant narrative and bring out the centrality of labour for the success of the country's apparel industry. It argues that speaking about producing guilt free garments requires a greater attentiveness to the voice and struggles of labour. It works to bring out the "exceptionality" of Sri Lanka's apparel industry and the ways in which it upholds of ethical codes of conduct, particularly from the viewpoint of labour. The book will contribute to debates on ethical codes and labour politics in the global South, and do so within the contemporary neoliberal milieu of corporate governance regimes. It will also speak to debates on the advent of neoliberalism and labour politics by studying the ways in which labour has challenged, shaped and resisted capitalism and capitalist processes within the apparel sector"--

Subject

• Clothing trade > Sri Lanka
• Clothing trade > Moral and ethical aspects > Sri Lanka
• Labor movement > Sri Lanka
• Mouvement ouvrier > Sri Lanka
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy
• Clothing trade > Moral and ethical aspects
• Clothing trade
• Labor movement
• Sri Lanka

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: global labour justice via ethical codes -- Labouring for apparels: labour geographies and feminist inflections -- Fieldwork: prolonged phases and multiple moments -- Clothing the world, guilt free? Sri Lanka's apparel landscape -- Neglected labour histories: the Sri Lankan state responds to labour -- Ethicality with a blind eye? Ethical code practices at production sites -- From war to work: ethicality amidst post-war trauma? -- Concluding thoughts: grounded governance?

ISBN

• 9781108832014
• 1108832016
• 9781108937573 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2021053886

OCLC

• on1285369962
• SCSB-14312279

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library