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

by Mary Beth Mills

Book Overview

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"