Garments without Guilt?: Global Labour Justice and Ethical Codes in Sri Lankan Apparels

Cover
Reviews
Garments without Guilt?
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Tables, Figures and Images
Preface and Acknowledgements
Published Works and Funding
Abbreviations
1 Introduction: Global Labour Justice via Ethical Codes?
	2008: Global and Local Significance
	Sri Lankan Exceptionalism?
	Labouring and Producing Ethical Garments?
	Notes
2 Labouring for Apparels: Labour Geographies and Feminist Inflections
	Introduction
	Globalizing Garments
	Why Women Workers? Feminist Interventions across Time
	Potency of Labour? Labour Geographies, Agency and Power
	From Academic Interventions to Labour Activism
	Notes
3 Fieldwork: Prolonged Phases and Multiple Moments
	Introduction
	Multiple Belongings: Doing Fieldwork Back ‘Home’
	Away from the FTZ and Colombo
	Sketching the Setting: Factory Profiles
	Elongated Research and Mingling Methods
	Notes
4 Clothing the World – Guilt Free?: Sri Lanka’s Apparel Landscape
	Introduction
	Benefits of Going Small? The Early Years to 2008
	Value Upgrading to Valued Labour?
	2008: Catalyst of Efficiencies, Effectiveness and Excellence?
	The Labour Question: Recruitment and Retention
	Capturing and Redistributing the Gains?
	Conclusion
	Notes
5 Neglected Labour Histories: The Sri Lankan State Responds to Labour
	Introduction
	Transitions: From Democratic Socialism to an Open Economy
	1980 and 1982: Strength of Striking
	Taming Post-War Hubris via Labour Defiance
	Take Two: State Amnesia and Labour Reform
	Conclusion
	Notes
6 Ethicality with a Blind Eye?: Ethical Code Practices at Production Sites
	Introduction
	Ethical Codes: The Bedrock of Global Labour Justice?
	Buzzing Factories, Loud Music and Code Consciousness
	Code Observance: Safe Factories to Code Compliance?
	Contested Codes? The Continuum of Compliance
		Evolving Code Compliance: From Then to Now
		Slip Sliding: Overtime, Covering and Inhumane Treatment
	Blind-Eyed Ethical Sourcing: Corrupted Compliance?
	Conclusion
	Notes
7 From War to Work: Ethicality amidst Post-War Trauma?
	Introduction
	Magnanimous Capital?
	Respect, New Futures and Economic Freedom?
	Ethical Codes and Ethnic Markers
		Forced Labour?
		Slippery Slope: From Verbal Abuse to Inhumane Treatment?
		Job Creation without Living Wages
	Conclusion
	Notes
8 Concluding Thoughts: Grounded Governance?
	Introduction
	Scandal-Free Sri Lankan Apparel Firms?
	Ethical Codes Exposed?
	Notes
Appendix
	Employment and Earnings in Sri Lanka’s Wearing Apparel Sector, 2008–2017
	Index of Industrial Production (IIP) for Sri Lanka’s Apparel Sector, 2010–2016
References
Index