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Thai Women In The Global Labor Force: Consuming Desires, Contested Selves
by Mary Beth Mills

                {xtypo_rounded2}{xtypo_dropcap} M{/xtypo_dropcap}ost research on the female labor force in Thailand focuses on that country's infamous sex industry. Mary Beth Mills offers the first extended ethnographic analysis of less visible occupations, paying particular attention to the hundreds of thousands of young rural women who migrate to Bangkok to fill the factories and sweatshops of the metropolis. She sees this rural-urban migration as an elaborate process of cultural change, with broad implications for the future of the labor force.{/xtypo_rounded2}