labourers

Labour’s lost agency

What happened to the labour movement in Sri Lanka?

| Mar 08, 2015

Such a long journey

How and why 145,000 people migrated to a small Caribbean island.

| Oct 01, 2011

The feminist and the sex worker

Despite decades of tension between feminists and sex workers, it is finally becoming clear that the former has much to learn from the latter.

| Aug 15, 2010

Bargaining in a labour regime

Up-country Tamil plantation workers remain a subjugated community, treated as little more than bonded labour. The current political foment includes opportunities for change.

| Feb 01, 2010

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