Factors shaping the divergent post-work lives of global factory workers

This seminar focuses on female global factory workers in three South Asian contexts—Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and India—to argue that global factory wage work arrangements and social, economic and cultural contexts shape women’s post-factory lives in divergent ways.

Structural adjustment policies, incentives for foreign investments, and transnational production arrangements combine with specific cultural contexts generating country specific differences in how the global assembly line production is envisioned, designed, and legislated into existence. Sandya investigates locational specificities that shape women’s 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.

Related links

• Thomas Coram Research Unit (TCRU)
• TCRU seminar series
• Social Research Institute

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