Biyanwila, S. Janaka.

The labour movement in the global south trade unions in Sri Lanka / [electronic resource] : Labor movement in the global south S. Janaka Biyanwila. - New York : Routledge, 2011. - 1 online resource (xvii, 214 p.) : ill., map. - Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 36 . - Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 36. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [190]-204) and index.

Introduction: Sri Lanka, the global south and worker struggles -- History of unions in Sri Lanka : the colonial state and political unionism -- The nurses' and a monk : limits of economic unionism -- Plantation workers and anti-Tamil violence : struggles of political unionism -- Free trade zone workers and allianced : building a movement unionism -- Conclusion : renewing movement politics and global labour solidarity.




Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Labor unions--History.--Sri Lanka


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