Enacting solidarity: Unions and migrant youth in Thailand

Critique of Anthropology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 175-192

  Mills, Mary Beth ^a  

^a Health Services and Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

Identity; Labor; Ritual; Thailand; Unions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033242601     PISSN: 0308275X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0308275X9901900203     Document Type: Article

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