Pathirana, Dhanusha Gihan
Exploitation in Sri Lanka’s Plantation Economy: Structure and Strategy - Economic & Political Weekly - 60(31), Aug 2, 2025: p.23-28
The way that Sri Lanka’s plantation elite manipulate tea pricing and productivity claims to suppress wages is examined. Their accounting deceptions divert industry surplus away from estates, enabling wage suppression while maintaining quasi-feudal production relations. The article proposes a workers’ conglomeration to control pricing and reinvestment of the surplus supported by equal redistribution of estate land among the largely female workforce. - Reproduced
https://www.epw.in/journal/2025/31/commentary/exploitation-sri-lankas-plantation-economy.html
plantation, Sri Lanka’s plantation, tea pricing, female workforce
Exploitation in Sri Lanka’s Plantation Economy: Structure and Strategy - Economic & Political Weekly - 60(31), Aug 2, 2025: p.23-28
The way that Sri Lanka’s plantation elite manipulate tea pricing and productivity claims to suppress wages is examined. Their accounting deceptions divert industry surplus away from estates, enabling wage suppression while maintaining quasi-feudal production relations. The article proposes a workers’ conglomeration to control pricing and reinvestment of the surplus supported by equal redistribution of estate land among the largely female workforce. - Reproduced
https://www.epw.in/journal/2025/31/commentary/exploitation-sri-lankas-plantation-economy.html
plantation, Sri Lanka’s plantation, tea pricing, female workforce