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151240
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Contemporary working-class women’s theaters from within Export Processing Zones in Sri Lanka are rich sites for documenting the development and nature of working-class, feminist and ethnic consciousness. Through a careful analysis of workers’ ‘development dramas’ – theater that contests dominant forms of development – their performative acts on a factory floor, and visual materials, this paper will explore how bodies are produced and made to matter. I will demonstrate how from their inception in the late 1970s onward, these zones were designed to cater to the needs of neoliberal capital and an increasingly ethnicized state at war with separatist Tamil forces. As such, even as the welfare state has been dismantled by neoliberalism, the military and ethnic powers of the state were expanded through these zones. An analysis of workers’ plays allows us to understand the relationship between ethnic war and neoliberalism as they intersect with gender. These plays allow us to explore the conditions of possibility for a working-class feminist consciousness and its limits. To conclude, this paper will consider how these zones have changed after 2009, in the post-war context, with the inclusion of Tamil women workers within.
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163519
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China started to establish export processing zones (EPZs) in 2000 to better manage foreign processing business. The cluster of export processing business inside the EPZs provides an opportunity for neighboring Chinese firms to observe. Chinese firms quickly imitate foreign exporters in both export and import patterns. Exports of the exact products shipped from EPZs immediately increase throughout the province, with the largest gains in the city containing the EPZ, and the next largest in the cities adjacent to the EPZ. Chinese firms also import the same equipment imported by firms in EPZs, suggesting that they imitate foreign technology. Furthermore, we find that Chinese firms who imitate experience modest gains in profitability and productivity. We conclude that a key ingredient of China’s success in trade has been its ability to attract foreign capital and subsequently imitate them.
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092722
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175094
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Industrial action in export processing zones challenges the conventions of labour protest. Labour relations in domestic and foreign direct investment enterprises in industrial parks and export processing zones in Ho Chi Minh City were researched in 2018, with findings that divide into two areas of interest: (a) the ways ‘innovation’ in the economy has affected changes for the subjects involved in labour relations; (b) with strikes being a manifestation of conflict in labour relations, after a period of sharp increase (2011), there has been a decreasing number in recent years, but with changing characteristics. In particular, when a strike occurs now, the trade union which used to be the unique legal representative of all Vietnamese employees is less often favoured, and others are chosen by the employees to negotiate with the business owner. This trend will perhaps be formalized as Vietnam implements international labour–trade union commitments recently adopted.
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