Thai Women in the Global Labor Force
Thai Women in the Global Labor Force

Author: Mary Beth Mills

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780813526546

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This text is an ethnographic examination of young women migrants in rural and urban Thailand. The author focuses on the hundreds of thousands of young women who fill the factories and sweatshops of the Bangkok metropolis, following them as they travel from the village of Baan Naa Sakae.

Thailand's Hidden Workforce
Thailand's Hidden Workforce

Author: Doctor Ruth Pearson

Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.

Published: 2012-06-14

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 184813987X

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Millions of Burmese women migrate into Thailand each year to form the basis of the Thai agricultural and manufacturing workforce. Un-documented and unregulated, this army of migrant workers constitutes the ultimate 'disposable' labour force, enduring gruelling working conditions and much aggression from the Thai police and immigration authorities. This insightful book ventures into a part of the global economy rarely witnessed by Western observers. Based on unique empirical research, it provides the reader with a gendered account of the role of women migrant workers in Thailand's factories and interrogates the ways in which they manage their families and their futures.