Labour, Politics and the State in Industrialising Thailand (Hardcover, annotated edition)

The growing industrialization of Thailand due to the introduction of capitalist processes has had a revolutionary impact on the organization and structure of the society. New classes, groups and interests have arisen including a new urban-based industrial working class who are essential to the new capitalist procedures. This book examines how industrial workers have come to occupy a strategic place in the contemporary political economy and charts their long-term activism in seeking redress for a range of individual, social and political problems. This text focuses on how the state has become entangled in the processes through which workers have been organized, reorganized and disorganized as social and political actors in different historical periods. By examining the themes of labour weakness, political exclusion and insignificance of "class factors", this book brings back workers from the margins by demonstrating that both in the present and past the state has been involved in processes that determine the forms of their struggles. By utilizing new empirical data and historical material, Brown highlights how the working class have emerged as an enduring facet of Thai society.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge/City University of Hong Kong Southeast Asia Series
Release date:	September 2003
First published:	2004
Authors:	Andrew Brown
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	192
Edition:	annotated edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-31862-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > General Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Labour economics > General Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Economic systems > General
LSN:	0-415-31862-9
Barcode:	9780415318624

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