An Empirical Investigation of Level of Job Stress and Potential Stressors among Operational Level Female Workers in Garment Factories in Sri Lankan Free Trade Zones

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.L. Kotuwage
Keyword(s):  
Job Stress ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Free Trade Zones ◽  
Female Workers ◽  
Operational Level ◽  
Garment Factories

scholarly journals Garments Worker’s Job Stress and Mental Health

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Biplob Kumar Dey ◽  
Abdur Rahman ◽  
Mst. Sabiha Sultana ◽  
Sahila Sadaf
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Job Stress ◽  
Interaction Effect ◽  
Significant Interaction ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Significant Interaction Effect ◽  
Pearson Product Moment Correlation ◽  
Stress Scale ◽  
Garment Workers ◽  
Female Workers

The present study attempted an empirical investigation to explore the job stress and mental health of garment workers as a function of gender and salary. A total of 120 respondents constituted the sample of the study were selected purposively of Chittagong district Bangladesh. Among them 60 workers were male (20 were salary ranges of 4000-8000├, 20 were salary ranges of 8100-12000├ and 20 were salary ranges of above 12000├) and 60 workers were female (20 were salary ranges of 4000-8000├, 20 were salary ranges of 8100-12000├ and 20 were salary ranges of above 12000├). An adapted Bengali version (Rahman and Sorcar, 1990) of ‘Job Stress’ scale and Bengali version (Sorcar and Rahman, 1989) of “Mental Health” scale were used. Data were analyzed by mean, standard deviation, Pearson Product Moment Correlation and two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). The findings of the present study showed that female workers had significantly more job stress (F=72.07, df =1, p<.00) than male workers and lowest salary ranges workers had significantly more job stress (F=20.78, df =2, p<.00) than highest salary ranges workers. No significant interaction effect found between gender and salary according to job stress. On the other hand, gender had no significant effect on mental health and highest salary ranges workers had significantly more mental health (F =5.71, df =2, p<.00) than lowest salary ranges workers. No significant interaction effect found between gender and salary according to mental health. Results also showed that job stress was negatively correlated (r = -.35, p<.01) with mental health.

Anatomy of Non-tariff Barriers in India–Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement: An Empirical Investigation

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-141
Author(s):  
Barun Deb Pal ◽  
Sanjib Pohit
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
Free Trade Agreement ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Narrow Sense

This article attempts to answer one crucial research question: why the utilization of India–Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement (ISFTA) route for trade is very poor by the Indian exporters (13%) as compared to their Sri Lankan counterpart (65%) even after one decade of its implementation? The available studies have blamed the non-tariff barriers (NTBs) which are hamstringing the growth of trade between these partners development of international trade. However, these have considered NTBs as subset of non-tariff measures (NTMs) which are quite narrow sense of finding the hidden barriers within the International trade process. Therefore, this article has analysed in detail the logistic process involved in international trade between India and Sri Lanka to understand various NTBs sheltered within this logistic process. Further, the article has identified issues which are not directly beyond the logistic process which are affecting the international trade between these two countries. JEL: F0, F1

Educating Ms. Fatima

1970 ◽  
pp. 56-63
Author(s):  
Tim Walters ◽  
Susan Swan ◽  
Ron Wolfe ◽  
John Whiteoak ◽  
Jack Barwind
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
High Technology ◽  
Emerging Technology ◽  
Abu Dhabi ◽  
Free Trade Zones ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
K 12

The United Arab Emirates is a smallish Arabic/Islamic country about the size of Maine located at the tip of the Arabian Peninsula. Though currently oil dependent, the country is moving rapidly from a petrocarbon to a people-based economy. As that economy modernizes and diversifies, the country’s underlying social ecology is being buffeted. The most significant of the winds of change that are blowing include a compulsory, free K-12 education system; an economy shifting from extractive to knowledge-based resources; and movement from the almost mythic Bedouin-inspired lifestyle to that of a sedentary highly urbanized society. Led by resource-rich Abu Dhabi and Dubai, the federal government has invested heavily in tourism, aviation, re-export commerce, free trade zones, and telecommunications. The Emirate of Dubai, in particular, also has invested billions of dirhams in high technology. The great dream is that educated and trained Emiratis will replace the thousands of foreign professionals now running the newly emerging technology and knowledge-driven economy.

Invisible bondage: Mobility and compulsion within Sri Lanka’s global assembly line production

Ethnography ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 146613812199584
Author(s):  
Sandya Hewamanne
Keyword(s):  
Military Personnel ◽  
Assembly Line ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Line Production ◽  
Free Trade Zones ◽  
Female Workers ◽  
Emotional Bonds ◽  
Neoliberal Capitalism ◽  
Market Relations ◽  
Tamil Women

Female workers who enter factory work in Sri Lanka’s Free Trade Zones (FTZs) via contractors are not forced to join or remain in contractor labor pools. This paper, however, argues that such workers nevertheless remain unfree due to cultural and emotional bonds that restrict labor mobility. By analyzing how contracted workers’ entry and mobility within work get shaped by a coalition of patriarchal agents—parents, contractors and factory management—the paper demonstrates how compulsive emotional conditions, that I term “invisible bondage,” are produced and maintained. While the degree of compulsion varies depending on the particular form of labor contracting (i.e., Tamil women from the war torn areas recruited by military personnel, or daily hired workers), I show that all labor contracting for global production represent how forms of unfreedoms are interwoven into supposedly free market relations of production. Such invisible controls, I argue, are essential for neoliberal capitalism to thrive.

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