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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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The Obedient EPZ-Worker : A case study concerning female EPZ workers' barriers to empowerment in Sri Lanka

Lindgren Cortés, Katarina January 2014 (has links)
This study analyzes and maps barriers preventing Sri Lankan female workers in Export Processing Zones (EPZs) from participating in awareness raising activities by NGOs. These barriers can furthermore be discussed as preventing them from an enhanced empowerment. The gathered data is mostly based on interviews conducted during a three-week long fieldtrip in Sri Lanka. By using both a literature analysis on the field of research together with group interviews with both female EPZ workers as well as with personnel from a women’s organization in Sri Lanka the study identifies five barriers hindering the women’s participation; time and distance; lack of motivation or interest; limited knowledge of the organization; someone opposing the choice; and fear of loosing the employment. The study derives the root-causes of the barriers to the current social norms and roles, which are internalized in the young women’s mind from their background as well as through the reproduction of them in their new environment, but also to EPZs as discouraging an improvement of the women’s situation.
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The export garments industry of Bangladesh with particular reference to women

Rock, Marilyn I. January 2002 (has links)
After gaining independence from Pakistan in 1971, the Bangladesh state moved from a mainly state-managed sector to a privatised one based on export-oriented industrialisation. Under this policy, the production of garments for export emerged in the mid-1970s to later become the most lucrative export earner for Bangladesh, underlining the fact that it has become an important world exporter of garments. In developing into the only multi-billion- dollar manufacturing export in the country, this industry has created employment for more than a million workers most of whom are young females from the impoverished rural areas of Bangladesh. This is socially significant because, for the first time, it marked the entry of Bangladeshi women into formal manufacturing employment. This thesis attempts to examine the origins and development of this export garments industry, with specific reference to the role of women workers in this process. In so it endeavours to contextualise these issues by arguing that the changes that it endeavours can be best explained according to a Marxist class analysis and by reference to a colonial history characterised by ongoing exploitation in an emerging manufacturing sector and by ongoing resistance to such exploitation by an emerging industrial workforce. Additionally, in examining the development of this industry, the thesis also sets out to show how the industry is the product of a conjuncture of forces, including an emerging capitalist class, a weak state, foreign capital and international state formations such as GATT and the ILO. / Finally, by testing some of the prevailing hypotheses in the literature that deals with third world women workers, the thesis examines the impact of this industrial development on the place of women in Bangladeshi society. More specifically, it attempts to demonstrate that, contrary to the dominant view, such workers are not necessarily passive; nor are they reluctant to engage in trade union activity. Instead, it endeavours to show that, in the case of the export garments industry in Bangladesh, the young women workers have over time learned to exercise their rights and to participate in industrial activity, largely, and ironically because the centralisation necessary for labour and quality standards has also created the conditions for the proletarianisation of the women workers.
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Memória do Operariado Amazonense: a festa como constructo e expressão da subjetividade operária

Reis Filho, Milton Melo dos 29 July 2013 (has links)
Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-20T12:32:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 milton melo.pdf: 217511 bytes, checksum: 421a4cf78f0650362bab56ef2d6f92f9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-07-29 / FAPEAM - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Amazonas / A tese intitulada Memória do Operariado Amazonense: a festa como constructo humano e expressão da subjetividade operária , trata de um estudo sobre os trabalhadores do Polo Industrial de Manaus que, em meio às tensões do regime no início dos anos oitenta e das agruras do controle fabril, soube organizar-se para constituir-se numa classe social, a classe operária. Buscamos compreendê-lo na trama de relações e dos antagonismos de classe que notabilizaram este período. Assumiu o propósito de resgatar os fragmentos e retalhos da vida e trabalho dos trabalhadores amazonenses, a expressão de suas subjetividades na manifestação da festa operária, ocorrida no interior das fábricas que compõem o Polo Industrial de Manaus, na década de oitenta do século XX e suas implicações no processo de transformação, transcendência e hominização dos trabalhadores congregados nos atos festivos. O estudo atende a uma perspectiva metodológica da história oral e a técnica utilizada constituiu-se na entrevista do tipo semi-estruturado aplicada junto a onze trabalhadores do Polo Industrial de Manaus. Realizamos uma análise sobre a reinvenção da subjetividade operária e a luta de classe; a reconstituição da ontologia do discurso operário no fazer-se classe, procurando revelar o lugar da memória dos trabalhadores amazonenses, buscando identificar os primeiros protagonistas da luta operária, os antagonismos e a construção do novo sindicalismo e das greves segundo a narrativa dos operários; a festa como expressão da luta operária, constitui-se como instrumento de visibilização da greve, expressão cultural, transgressão e carnavalização e, por último, a reinterpretação da festa como reinvenção do operariado, traduzindo os sentidos da festa para a organização sindical, alguns apontamentos sobre o trabalho nos anos 1990 e os novos rumos do sindicalismo no Brasil e no Amazonas. A realização desta pesquisa deveu-se à necessidade e, também, à preocupação de recuperar a memória do operariado amazonense cuja meta fundamenta-se na ideia de contribuir para com a produção dos estudos da memória histórica regional, apresentando subsídios à comunidade acadêmica no discutir de uma visão historiográfica dando vez, voz e lugar aos sujeitos históricos do seu tempo.
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Made in China / produzido no polo industrial da zona franca de Manaus : o trabalho nas fábricas chinesas

Brito, Cleiton Ferreira Maciel 05 May 2017 (has links)
Submitted by Aelson Maciera (aelsoncm@terra.com.br) on 2017-08-09T15:11:12Z No. of bitstreams: 1 TeseCFMB.pdf: 2452668 bytes, checksum: 7373a1f0e4268dd824cebc1365c60585 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ronildo Prado (ronisp@ufscar.br) on 2017-08-09T17:13:27Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 TeseCFMB.pdf: 2452668 bytes, checksum: 7373a1f0e4268dd824cebc1365c60585 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ronildo Prado (ronisp@ufscar.br) on 2017-08-09T17:13:35Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 TeseCFMB.pdf: 2452668 bytes, checksum: 7373a1f0e4268dd824cebc1365c60585 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-09T17:17:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 TeseCFMB.pdf: 2452668 bytes, checksum: 7373a1f0e4268dd824cebc1365c60585 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-05-05 / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Amazonas (FAPEAM) / This research analyses the Chinese production in the Industrial Cluster of Manaus Free Zone, focusing on the production pattern and work management. In recent years, significant changes have been operating within the global production chain as a result of the massive displacement of Chinese capital towards the various regions of the globe. Brazil and, more specifically, the Amazon has been one of the main destinations of these Chinese investments. An empirical proof of these metamorphoses of global capital is the arrival of a set of Chinese factories at the Industrial Cluster of Manaus (PIM) from the beginning of the year 2000. In order to understand the meaning of this on the organization of local work, especially in relation to the process of productive restructuring developed in the last years, this research sought to organizationally map out four Chinese factories. Quantitative and qualitative data were produced and gathered together from workers, managers, managers of public and private institutions, and Chinese expatriates. The research findings show that the Chinese, on the one hand, incorporated the local production pattern but, on the other hand, reshaped labour management. Such remodelling I called "taylorization with Chinese characteristics", which operates under the duality of being, at the same time, Made in China, but Produced at the Industrial Cluster of Manaus. As a fundamental element of this process, it was observed that strong socio-productive linkages between parent-subsidiary generate fragile socio-productive links in the Industrial Cluster of Manaus, implying high control of the Manauara workforce and Chinese expatriates. In spite of this, there has been a process of "appropriateness / injunction" that causes some "Chinese characteristics" to be deepened while others have to undergo transformations. / Esta pesquisa analisa a produção chinesa no Polo Industrial da Zona Franca de Manaus, com foco no padrão de produção e na gestão do trabalho. Nos últimos anos, mudanças significativas vêm sendo operadas no interior da cadeia produtiva global como resultado do massivo deslocamento do capital chinês em direção às diversas regiões do mundo, de sorte que, o Brasil e, mais especificamente, a Amazônia vem se constituindo na condição de um dos principais lugares de destino desses investimentos. Prova empírica dessas metamorfoses do capital global é a chegada de um conjunto de fábricas chinesas ao Polo Industrial de Manaus (PIM) a partir do início dos anos 2000. Buscando compreender o significado disso sobre a organização do trabalho local, sobretudo numa relação com o processo de reestruturação produtiva visualizado nos últimos anos, buscou-se mapear organizacionalmente quatro fábricas chinesas. Para isso, lançou-se mão de dados quantitativos e qualitativos obtidos juntos aos trabalhadores, gerentes, gestores de instituições públicas e privadas, e expatriados chineses. As conclusões da pesquisa mostram que os chineses, por um lado, incorporaram o padrão de produção local, mas, por outro, remodelaram a gestão do trabalho. A este remodelamento denominei como “taylorização com características chinesas” e que opera sob a dualidade de ser, ao mesmo tempo, Made in China, mas Produzido no Polo Industrial de Manaus. Como elemento fundamental desse processo, observou-se que os fortes vínculos sócio produtivos entre subsidiária-matriz geram frágeis vínculos sócio produtivos no PIM, implicando em alto controle tanto da mão de obra manauara, quanto da expatriada chinesa. A despeito disso, tem ocorrido um processo de “adequação/injunção” que faz com que algumas “características chinesas” sejam aprofundadas, enquanto outras tenham de sofrer transformações.

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