Female shop floor worker voice in the corporate social responsibility agenda of the Sri Lankan apparel industry
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Gayani Piyankara Kumari Samarakoon Samarakoon Mudiyanselage Thesis. Available under License Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives 4.0. |
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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives are used to respond to and deflect criticism regarding unfair labour standards in Global South production sites. This study, focusing on Sri Lankan apparel industry, reveals that Global South apparel suppliers deploy CSR initiatives as a political strategy to diffuse female workers’ consciousness of their exploitation, and as a lived shopfloor practice to co-opt workers in managerial agendas. Adopting theories of intersectionality, hegemony, and labour process, and deploying an interpretive, qualitative methodology, this thesis exposes the implicit and explicit exclusion and suppression of female worker voice in the CSR agenda of global production sites.
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| ID Code: | 236612 | ||
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| Item Type: | QUT Thesis (PhD) | ||
| Supervisor: | Mayes, Robyn & Grant-Smith, Deanna | ||
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| Keywords: | Corporate Social Responsibility, Capitalism, Critical Perspectives, Employee Voice, Female Workers, Global South, Intersectionality, Labour Process Theory, Patriarchy, Political Strategy, Sri Lankan Apparel Industry, Theory of Ideological Hegemony | ||
| DOI: | 10.5204/thesis.eprints.236612 | ||
| Pure ID: | 118207495 | ||
| Divisions: | Current > QUT Faculties and Divisions > Faculty of Business & Law Current > Schools > School of Management |
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| Institution: | Queensland University of Technology | ||
| Deposited On: | 30 Nov 2022 01:00 | ||
| Last Modified: | 05 Feb 2023 22:33 |
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