S Janaka Biyanwila

The Labour Movement in the Global South

Trade Unions in Sri Lanka

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Produktbeschreibung

Based on extensive original research, this book examines the challenges confronting trade unions in the global South, by focusing on trade union struggles in Sri Lanka under neo-liberal globalisation. It centres on movement politics of unions; explains union capacities to mobilise workers as a part of broad counter movement; and specifies worker struggles in Sri Lanka.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 164mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 486g
• ISBN-13: 9780415580809
• ISBN-10: 0415580803
• Artikelnr.: 32095990

Autorenporträt

S. Janaka Biyanwila is a part-time lecturer in Employment Relations at the Business School of the University of Western Australia. His work explores labour relations with particular interests in the global South intertwining issues of development, nationalism, social movements, gender and civil society.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Sri Lanka, the Global South and Worker Struggles 2.
History of Unions in Sri Lanka: The Colonial State and Political Unionism
3. The Nurses and a Monk: Limits of Economic Unionism 4. Plantation Workers
and Anti-Tamil Violence: Struggles of Political Unionism 5. Free Trade Zone
Workers and Allianced: Building a Movement Unionism 6. Conclusion: Renewing
Movement Politics and Global Labour Solidarity