Thai Women in the Global Labor Force: Consuming Desires, Contested Selves

by Mary Beth Mills

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Most research on female labor migration in Thailand focuses on that country's infamous sex industry. Mary Beth Mills offers the first extended ethnographic analysis of rural women's movement into less visible occupations, paying particular attention to the hundreds of thousands of young women who fill the factories and sweatshops of the Bangkok metropolis. Mills follows the women as they travel from the village of Baan Naa Sakae to Bangkok, where...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:081352654X

ISBN13:9780813526546

Release Date:April 1999

Publisher:Rutgers University Press

Length:238 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Asia Business & Investing Economics Gay & Lesbian History Labor & Industrial Relations Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Popular Economics Social Science Social Sciences Southeast Asia Thailand Women in History Women's Studies

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