Exploitation in global supply chains: Burmese migrant workers in Mae Sot, Thailand

Transnational Migration and Work in Asia

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 165-190

  Arnold, Dennis ^a   Hewison, Kevin ^b  

^a Asia Monitor Resource Centre   (Hong Kong)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

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EID: 52049106062     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203029084     Document Type: Chapter

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