Empowerment as a pre-requisite to managing and influencing health in the workplace: the sexual and reproductive health needs of factory women migrant workers in Malaysia
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Miles, L., Freeman, T., Wan Teng, L., Mat-Yasin, S. and Ying, K. 2022. Empowerment as a pre-requisite to managing and influencing health in the workplace: the sexual and reproductive health needs of factory women migrant workers in Malaysia. Economic and Industrial Democracy. 43 (4), pp. 1676-1698. https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831x211024725
Type | Article |
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Title | Empowerment as a pre-requisite to managing and influencing health in the workplace: the sexual and reproductive health needs of factory women migrant workers in Malaysia |
Authors | Miles, L., Freeman, T., Wan Teng, L., Mat-Yasin, S. and Ying, K. |
Abstract | Malaysia is a major importer of migrant labour within the ASEAN, and migration has adverse implications for the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) of women migrant workers. Given the centrality of the workplace to the lives of such women, we report a qualitative analysis of interview data with women migrant workers (n=14) and wider stakeholders (n=10) and consider the extent to which they are able to effect change in workplace SRH policy and practice. Informed by Rowlands’ typology of power and model of empowerment, our analysis considers the extent to which normative expectations of process and collective mobilisation upon which feminist empowerment models are predicated operate in such contexts and discuss the implications of our findings for research to advance workplace democracy. |
Keywords | Empowerment; factory women; migrant workers ; Malaysia; sexual and reproductive health |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Journal | Economic and Industrial Democracy |
ISSN | 0143-831X |
Electronic | 1461-7099 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 30 Jun 2021 |
Nov 2022 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 21 May 2021 |
Accepted | 21 May 2021 |
Output status | Published |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Accepted author manuscript | File Access Level Restricted |
Copyright Statement | © The Author(s) 2021. |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831x211024725 |
Web of Science identifier | WOS:000670739800001 |
Language | English |
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