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Thai women in the global labor force : consuming desires, contested selves / Mary Beth Mills.
Lippincott Library HD6192.55 .M55 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mills, Mary Beth, 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Employment--Thailand.
- Women.
- Women--Employment.
- Migrant labor.
- Thailand.
- Migrant labor--Thailand.
- Women--Thailand--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 218 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [1999]
- Summary:
- 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 they encounter new forms of consumption, new "modern" lifestyles, and a new sense of identity. By departing from the most common ethnographic portrayals of Thai women -- as mothers and rural housewives or as prostitutes -- this book expands our understanding of how gender and gender relations are constructed, contested, and transformed in contemporary Thai society.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-201) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0813526531
- 081352654X
- OCLC:
- 39875257
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