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Textures of Struggle: The Emergence of Resistance Among Garment Workers in Thailand Hardback - 2007

by Piya Pangsapa

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Based on intensive ethnographic fieldwork in Thailand, Textures of Struggle focuses on the experiences of Thai women who are employed at textile factories and examines how the all-encompassing nature of wage work speaks to issues of worker accommodation and resistance within various factory settings. Why are some women less tolerant of their working conditions than others? How is it that women who have similar levels of education, come from the same socioeconomic background, and enter the same occupation, nevertheless emerge with different experiences and reactions to their wage employment?

Women in the Thai apparel industry, Piya Pangsapa finds, have very different experiences of labor "militancy" and "non-militancy." Through interviews with women at two kinds of factories--one linked to the global economy through local capital investment and another through transnational capital--Pangsapa examines issues of worker consciousness with a focus on the process by which women become activists.

She explores the different degrees of control and coercion employed by factory managers and shows how women were able to overcome conditions of adversity by relying on the close personal ties they developed with each other. Textures of Struggle reveals what it is like for women to feel powerlessness and passivity in Thai sweatshops but also shows how they are equally able to resist and rebel.

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  • Title Textures of Struggle: The Emergence of Resistance Among Garment Workers in Thailand
  • Author Piya Pangsapa
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 232
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher ILR Press, Ithaca
  • Publication date 2007-07-24
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780801445910 / 0801445914
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.27 x 6.41 x 0.77 in (23.55 x 16.28 x 1.96 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Women's Interest
  • Category Politics / Current Events
  • Library of Congress subjects Women clothing workers - Thailand, Women textile workers - Thailand
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2007011166
  • Dewey Decimal Code 331.488

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  • Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2007, Page 115

About the author

Piya Pangsapa is Assistant Professor of Global Gender Studies at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.

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