Working for global factories: Thai women in electronics export companies in the Northern Regional Industrial Estate

Women and Work in Globalizing Asia

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 131-153

  Theobald, Sally ^a  

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EID: 84905132079     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203166925     Document Type: Chapter

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