CMNS 240 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11-2: Special Economic Zone, Labour Market Flexibility, Structural Adjustment
9 Dec 2016
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Exhausted bodies and precious products: women"s work in a special economic zone for the electronics industry in poland (malgorzata maciejewska) Given such insignificant employment creation it is necessary to ask why the state is so heavily engaged in the development of sezs. On the level of state politics, the zones were viewed as a core institutional tool for export-oriented industrialisation which was intended to contribute to economic growth in less developed and indebted countries. Underlying the establishment of the zones in asian and latin american countries were structural adjustment programmes and such neoliberal policies as trade liberalisation and large business incentives, which created the ground for capital allocation. Mainly based on the assumption that global capital would create jobs and help repair local economies mainly via gdp growth. Where the success story of businesses located inside them is undermined by labour exploitation and failure to improve the quality of life for the local communities.
