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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.

Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
1 Women, Migration and Thai Experiences of Modernity
2 Village and Nation
3 Cash, Commodities, and Modernity
4 Parents, Children, and Migration Decisions
5 Gender and Mobility
6 Bangkok Wage Workers
7 Consumption, Desire, and Thansamay Selves
8 Courtship, Marriage, and Contested Selves
9 Gender and Modernity, Local and Global Encounters
Notes Glossary of Thai Words and Pronunciation Guide
References
Index

Thai Women in the Global Labor Force Consuming

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      Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
      Publication Date: 4/1/1999 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780813526546, 978-0813526546
      ISBN10: 081352654X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      List of Figures
      Acknowledgements
      1 Women, Migration and Thai Experiences of Modernity
      2 Village and Nation
      3 Cash, Commodities, and Modernity
      4 Parents, Children, and Migration Decisions
      5 Gender and Mobility
      6 Bangkok Wage Workers
      7 Consumption, Desire, and Thansamay Selves
      8 Courtship, Marriage, and Contested Selves
      9 Gender and Modernity, Local and Global Encounters
      Notes Glossary of Thai Words and Pronunciation Guide
      References
      Index

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