Dismantling the case against decent wages in tea plantations: Partial histories, half-truths and unfulfilled prophecies • Sri Lanka Brief

Dismantling the case against decent wages in tea plantations: Partial histories, half-truths and unfulfilled prophecies • Sri Lanka Brief

The data forecloses any possibility of plantation companies facing financial bankruptcy. But the arguments they choose to advance lay bare a deeper moral bankruptcy. This moral bankruptcy manifests in many ways. It fuels plantation companies’ rapacious pursuit of profit over the weathered backs of workers. This moral bankruptcy incessantly exploits workers, while delegitimising and dismissing workers’ demands for a decent wage by Mark Schubert. …