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The Labour Movement in the Global South

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 part of a broad counter-movement; and specifies worker struggles in Sri Lanka.

The author identifies key dimensions of variation in the approaches taken by oppositional groupings, in particular unions, other labour organisations and the labour movement, and locates those variations in a larger theoretical context. Three case studies on trade unions in tea plantations, garment factories and among the nurses show how these theoretical dimensions operate in practice, and the consequences for the sort of opposition that is (and is not) created. The book contributes to the ongoing debate on social movement unionism, and it also reveals the gaps in terms of addressing how class injustices are mediated through ethno-nationalist projects reproducing ethnic and gender hierarchies. It acknowledges the diversity of experiences and forms of resistance in the global South and critically engages with issues of gender, ethnicity and labour internationalism, providing a useful contribution to studies on South Asian politics as well as Labour and Development Studies.

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.

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Social and cultural transformations in a Muslim nation

Mohammad A. Qadeer

2 Labor, Democratization and Development in India and Pakistan

Christopher Candland

3 ChinaIndia Relations

Contemporary dynamics

Amardeep Athwal

4 Madrasas in South Asia

Teaching terror?

Jamal Malik

5 Labor, Globalization and the State

Workers, women and migrants confront Neoliberalism

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6 Indian Literature and Popular Cinema

Recasting classics

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7 Islamist Militancy in Bangladesh

A complex web

Ali Riaz

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25 The Rise of Ethnic Politics in Nepal

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27 Tsunami Recovery in Sri Lanka

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28 Development, Democracy and the State

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29 Mohajir Militancy in Pakistan

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32 National Identities in Pakistan

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33 Political Islam and Governance in Bangladesh

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34 Bengali Cinema

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35 NGOs in India

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36 The Labour Movement in the Global South

Trade unions in Sri Lanka

S. Janaka Biyanwila

The Labour Movement in the Global South

Trade unions in Sri Lanka

S. Janaka Biyanwila

LONDON AND NEW YORK

First published 2011
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

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