Thailand's hidden workforce : Burmese migrant women factory workers /: Burmese migrant women factory workers. (2012)
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- Book
- Title:
- Thailand's hidden workforce : Burmese migrant women factory workers /: Burmese migrant women factory workers. (2012)
- Main Title:
- Thailand's hidden workforce : Burmese migrant women factory workers
- Further Information:
- Note: Ruth Pearson & Kyoko Kusakabe.
- Authors:
- Pearson, Ruth, 1945-
Kusakabe, Kyoko - Contents:
- Asian Arguments; About the Authors; Acknowledgements; Map: Thailand and surrounding countries; Abbreviations; 1 Thailand's hidden workforce: Burmese women factory workers; Burmese migrant workers in Thailand: hidden from the global gaze; The context: push-and-pull factors underlying Burmese migration to Thailand; Background to the research; Burmese women workers in Thailand: nimble fingers and docile bodies; Burmese migrant workers: citizenship and entitlement in a hostile world; Who cares? Burmese women in Thailand as carers and workers. Shifting terrain: Burmese migrant women's responses to economic and political change2 Thailand's industrialisation and labour migration policies; Thailand's industrialisation before and after the Asian financial crisis of the 1990s; Decentralisation of industry; Demand for and control of migrant labour: regulating the irregular; Figure 2.1 Registered migrants 1997-2008; 3 Burmese women migrant workers in Thailand's export industries; The study areas; Figure 3.1 Apparel factories and workers in Tak province; Migrant women's journeys; Reconstructing families; Remittances as obligation. Marriage, children and changing relationshipsWomen's journeys: agency, subordination and change; 4 Migrant women in Thailand's factories: working conditions, struggles and experiences; Who are the women workers?; What kind of factories do they work in?; Working conditions; Security of employment and mobility; Accommodation and food; Pay and deductions; Safety,Asian Arguments; About the Authors; Acknowledgements; Map: Thailand and surrounding countries; Abbreviations; 1 Thailand's hidden workforce: Burmese women factory workers; Burmese migrant workers in Thailand: hidden from the global gaze; The context: push-and-pull factors underlying Burmese migration to Thailand; Background to the research; Burmese women workers in Thailand: nimble fingers and docile bodies; Burmese migrant workers: citizenship and entitlement in a hostile world; Who cares? Burmese women in Thailand as carers and workers. Shifting terrain: Burmese migrant women's responses to economic and political change2 Thailand's industrialisation and labour migration policies; Thailand's industrialisation before and after the Asian financial crisis of the 1990s; Decentralisation of industry; Demand for and control of migrant labour: regulating the irregular; Figure 2.1 Registered migrants 1997-2008; 3 Burmese women migrant workers in Thailand's export industries; The study areas; Figure 3.1 Apparel factories and workers in Tak province; Migrant women's journeys; Reconstructing families; Remittances as obligation. Marriage, children and changing relationshipsWomen's journeys: agency, subordination and change; 4 Migrant women in Thailand's factories: working conditions, struggles and experiences; Who are the women workers?; What kind of factories do they work in?; Working conditions; Security of employment and mobility; Accommodation and food; Pay and deductions; Safety, security and harassment, deportation; Relations with friends; 5 Burmese migrant women and families in Thailand: reproduction, children and care; Pregnancy and childbirth. Table 5.1 Country of birth of first child by respondent's locationChildcare; Table 5.2 Childcare patterns for children under 6 years old for those respondents who delivered a child after coming to Thailand, by location; Health care; Education; 6 After the crisis: new struggles and possibilities; Effect of the economic crisis on migrant workers' employment in Thailand; Dealing with the crisis: coping strategies of migrant workers; Retrenchment and strikes; Harassment, xenophobia and prejudice; After the crisis -- to stay or to return?; 7 Burmese migrant workers between two worlds. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- London New York : Zed Books
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Copyright Date:
- 2012
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (x, 205 pages), illustrations, map
- Subjects:
- 331.5/44/0899580593 331.625910593
Women foreign workers -- Thailand -- Economic conditions
Women foreign workers -- Thailand -- Social conditions
Women foreign workers -- Legal status, laws, etc -- Thailand
Foreign workers, Burmese -- Thailand -- Economic conditions
Foreign workers, Burmese -- Thailand -- Social conditions
Women migrant labor -- Burma
Development studies
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations
Economic history
Women foreign workers -- Legal status, laws, etc
Women foreign workers -- Social conditions
Women migrant labor
Arbeitnehmerin
Migration
Thailand -- Economic conditions
Burma
Thailand
Birma
Thailand
Electronic books
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781848139862
1848139861
9781848139879
1280769203
9781280769207
9786613679970
6613679976 - Related ISBNs:
- 184813987X
9781848139855
1848139853
9781848139848
1848139845 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-198) and index.
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