Feminisation of the industrial workplace: Empowerment or exploitation?

The Foxconn factory at Tamil Nadu has emerged as a site where women workers have faced unsafe, exploitative and discriminatory work conditions, representative indeed of the true position of women workers in the formal sector - forced to work in sweatshops, with heavy workload, and poorly informed of their rights under labour laws.
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R. Vaigai

R. Vaigai is a senior advocate at the Madras High Court

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