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Author Lynch, Caitrin

Title Juki Girls, Good Girls : Gender and Cultural Politics in Sri Lanka's Global Garment Industry
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (296 pages)
Contents Juki Girls, Good Girls; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Rohini: Young Women and Garment Life; 1. Globalization, Gender, and Labor; Chinta; 2. Localizing Production; Mala: The Truth about Women Workers at Garment Factories; 3. The Politics of White Women's Underwear; Geeta; 4. Juki Girls, Good Girls, and the Village Context; Sita; 5. The Good Girls of Sri Lankan Modernity; Geeta: Untitled; 6. Paternalism and Factory Conflicts; Conclusion; Glossary and Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary When a government program brought garment factories to rural Sri Lanka, women workers found themselves caught between the pressures of a globalizing economy and societal expectations that villages are sanctuaries of tradition. These women learned quickly to resist the characterization of "Juki girls"--Female garment workers already established in the urban sector--as vulgar and deracinated, instead asserting that they were "good girls" who could embody the nation's highest ideals of femininity. Caitrin Lynch shows how contemporary Sri Lankan women navigate a complex web of political, cultural, and socioeconomic forces. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research conducted inside export-oriented garment factories and a close examination of national policies intended to ease the way for globalization, Lynch details precisely how gender, nationalism, and globalization influence everyday life in Sri Lanka. This book includes autobiographical essays by garment workers about their efforts to attain the benefits of being seen as "good" while simultaneously expanding the definition of what sort of behavior constitutes appropriate conduct. These village garment workers struggled to reconcile the role thrust upon them as symbols of national progress with the negative public perception of factory workers. Lynch provides the context needed to appreciate the paradoxes that globalization creates while painting a sympathetic portrait of the individuals whose life stories appear in this book
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Subject Women clothing workers -- Sri Lanka -- Case studies
Sexual division of labor -- Sri Lanka -- Case studies
Sex role in the work environment -- Sri Lanka -- Case studies
Sex role -- Sri Lanka -- Case studies
Globalization -- Social aspects -- Sri Lanka -- Case studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural & Social.
Globalization -- Social aspects
Sex role
Sex role in the work environment
Sexual division of labor
Women clothing workers
Genus.
Globalisering.
Textilarbetare -- arbetsförhållanden -- genusarbetsdelning -- Sri Lanka -- sekelskiftet 2000.
Globalisering -- sociala aspekter -- Sri Lanka -- fallstudier.
Könsarbetsdelning -- Sri Lanka -- fallstudier.
Könsroller -- Sri Lanka -- fallstudier.
Kvinnliga textilarbetare -- Sri Lanka -- fallstudier.
Sri Lanka
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781501705007
1501705008
0801445566
9780801445569