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The labour movement in the global south [electronic resource] : trade unions in Sri Lanka / S. Janaka Biyanwila.

By: Biyanwila, S. Janaka.
Series: Routledge contemporary South Asia series: 36.Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2011Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 214 p.) : ill., map.ISBN: 9780203842232 (ebk : PDF).Other title: Labor movement in the global south.Subject(s): Labor unions -- Sri Lanka -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: No title; No titleDDC classification: 331.88095493 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; Also available in print edition.
Contents:
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.
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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.

Also available in print edition.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.