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Reframing employee voice: a case study in Sri Lanka’s export processing zones

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  • Samanthi J Gunawardana

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Labour-intensive workplaces in export processing zones (EPZs) are typically characterized as ‘sweatshop-like’, devoid of voice mechanisms. Using ethnographic data in a Sri Lankan EPZ apparel factory and focusing on social interaction on the shop floor, the findings demonstrated the way workers exercised formal and informal voice individually and collectively. These findings are understood against a theoretical dialogue between interdisciplinary perspectives of voice across different bodies of literature. Ethnographic insights on the enactment of voice illuminate the importance of worker agency and the social and cultural contextual nature of exercising voice in the workplace.

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  • Samanthi J Gunawardana, 2014. "Reframing employee voice: a case study in Sri Lanka’s export processing zones," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 28(3), pages 452-468, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:woemps:v:28:y:2014:i:3:p:452-468
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    1. Rafael Alcadipani & John Hassard & Gazi Islam, 2018. "“ I Shot the Sheriff ”: Irony, Sarcasm and the Changing Nature of Workplace Resistance," Grenoble Ecole de Management (Post-Print) halshs-01959081, HAL.
    2. Rafael Alcadipani & John Hassard & Gazi Islam, 2018. "“ I Shot the Sheriff ”: Irony, Sarcasm and the Changing Nature of Workplace Resistance," Post-Print halshs-01959081, HAL.

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