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Violence, Women, Work and Empowerment: Narratives from Factory Women in Sri Lanka’s Export Processing Zones

Peter HancockCentre for Social Research, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup Campus, 100 Joondalup Drive, Joondalup, Western Australia6127.Correspondence[email protected]
Pages 211-228 | Published online: 25 Oct 2017

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Arosha S Adikaram. (2018) Making sense of sexual harassment: narratives of working women in Sri Lanka. Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources 56:1, pages 102-123.
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Faustina Adomaa Obeng, Charlotte Wrigley-Asante & Joseph Kofi Teye. (2015) Working conditions in Ghana's export processing zone and women's empowerment. Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation 9:2.
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Peter Hancock, Sharon Middleton & Jamie Moore. (2012) Gender, globalisation and empowerment: a study of women who work in Sri Lanka's Export Processing Zones. Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation 6:1.
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