Employment and environmental hazard: Women workers and strategies of resistance in northern Thailand

Gender and Development

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 16-21

  Theobald, Sally ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; EXPLOITATION; EXPORT PROCESSING ZONE; FEMALE WORKFORCE; HEALTH HAZARD; WOMEN WORKERS; WOMEN'S ISSUES; WORKERS' RESISTANCE; WORKING CONDITIONS;

ARTICLE; ASIA; CASE REPORT; CASE STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ECONOMICS; EMPLOYMENT; EMPLOYMENT--WOMEN; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HUMAN RESOURCES; INDUSTRY; LABOR FORCE--WOMEN; MACROECONOMIC FACTORS; METHODOLOGY; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ORGANIZATION; RESEARCH; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SOUTHEASTERN ASIA; STUDIES; THAILAND; WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT;

ASIA; CASE STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC FACTORS; EMPLOYMENT--WOMEN; HEALTH; HUMAN RESOURCES; INDUSTRY; LABOR FORCE--WOMEN; MACROECONOMIC FACTORS; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ORGANIZATIONS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; SOUTHEASTERN ASIA; STUDIES; THAILAND; WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT;

ASIA; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMICS; EMPLOYMENT; HEALTH; HEALTH MANPOWER; INDUSTRY; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ORGANIZATIONS; RESEARCH; THAILAND; WOMEN;

THAILAND;

EID: 0030433838     PISSN: 13552074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/741922174     Document Type: Article

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