From global workers to local entrepreneurs: Sri Lanka's former global factory workers in rural Sri Lanka

• Published in: Third world quarterly Vol. 41; no. 3; pp. 547 - 564
• Main Author: Hewamanne, Sandya
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Routledge 03.03.2020; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Community relations; Cultural capital; Economic restructuring; Entrepreneurs; Export processing zones; female entrepreneurs; Foreign trade zones; Free trade; Gender roles; Global factory workers; Global local relationship; Industrial workers; International trade; Kinship; Leadership; manipulating capital; Marriage; Modes of production; neoliberal subjects; Neoliberalism; Rural areas; Rural communities; Social capital; Social change; Sri Lanka; Subcontracting; Women; Work; Workers; Sri Lanka

Working in Sri Lanka's urban free trade zones (FTZs) introduces Sri Lanka's rural women to neoliberal ways of fashioning selves, which subsequently not only shape village entrepreneurial activities but also initiate negotiations in kinship, marriage, domestic arrangements, and community re...