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100 _aPathirana, Dhanusha Gihan
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245 _aExploitation in Sri Lanka’s Plantation Economy: Structure and Strategy
260 _aEconomic & Political Weekly
300 _a60(31), Aug 2, 2025: p.23-28
520 _aThe 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
650 _aplantation, Sri Lanka’s plantation, tea pricing, female workforce
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773 _0Economic & Political Weekly
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