Fieldwork was conducted during a four-month period in 2002 and a two-month follow-up period in 2004 in the Katunayake export-processing zone area, Sri Lanka’s largest EPZ. Interviews were conducted either at the Women’s Centre, a non-governmental organization where six of the women actively participated in organizational activities, or at boarding houses, depending upon what best suited the interviewees. The characteristics of female workers who participated in the study are summarized in Table 1.