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Factors shaping the divergent post-work lives of global factory workers
14 November 2024, 12:00 pm鈥�1:00 pm
Join this event to hear Sandya Hewamanne discuss how locational specificities shape women's factory experiences and their after-work lives in the context of South Asia.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Andrea Verdasco
Location
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Room G03果冻影院55-59 Gordon SquareLondonWC1H 0NU
This seminar focuses on female global factory workers in three South Asian contexts鈥擲ri Lanka, Bangladesh and India鈥攖o argue that global factory wage work arrangements and social, economic and cultural contexts shape聽women鈥檚 post-factory lives in divergent ways.
Structural adjustment policies, incentives for foreign investments, and transnational production arrangements combine with specific cultural contexts generating聽country specific differences in how the global assembly line production is envisioned, designed, and legislated into existence. Sandya聽investigates locational specificities that shape women鈥檚 factory experiences in tandem with their after-work lives to argue that the divergent malleability of patriarchal structures and the extent of internalising neoliberal ethos are the main reasons for different post-work experiences.
This in-person event will be particularly useful to those with interests in gender and sexuality, political economy, medical anthropology and those who are researchers in the social sciences and humanities, and policymakers.
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About the Speaker
Professor Sandya Hewamanne
Professor of Anthropology and Director at the Center for Global South Studies at the University of Essex