Bangkok as a magnet for rural labour: chaning conditions, 1900-1970

Southeast Asian Studies

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 78-108

  Ouyyanont, Porphant ^a,b  

^a SUKHOTHAI THAMMATHIRAT OPEN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION; TWENTIETH CENTURY; URBAN HISTORY;

ARTICLE; ASIA; CRITIQUE; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ECONOMICS; EMPLOYMENT; EVALUATION; GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HUMAN RESOURCES; LABOR FORCE; METHODOLOGY; MIGRATION; POPULATION; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH; RURAL POPULATION; RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SOUTHEASTERN ASIA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; THAILAND; THEORETICAL MODEL; URBAN POPULATION; URBAN SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; URBANIZATION; URBANIZATION--DETERMINANTS;

ASIA; CRITIQUE; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC FACTORS; GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS; HUMAN RESOURCES; LABOR FORCE; MIGRATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION; RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOUTHEASTERN ASIA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; THAILAND; URBAN SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; URBANIZATION--DETERMINANTS;

ASIA; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMICS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EMPLOYMENT; EVALUATION STUDIES; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH MANPOWER; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH; RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CHANGE; THAILAND; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION;

THAILAND;

EID: 0032448748     PISSN: 05638682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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