COALITION BUILDING AND LABOUR STRENGHTENING: A CASE STUDY OF LABOUR ORGANIZING IN NORTHERN THAILAND
Keywords:
Coalition Building, Cross Class Coalition, Labour Organizing, Precarious LabourAbstract
This article investigates coalition building and labour organizations in Northern Thailand, based on my research with precarious workers in Chiang Mai –Lamphun provinces, Northern Thailand. Northern Thailand is mountainous landscape where many medium-sized industries, export and agribusiness industries have been promoted. Modern communication and information technologies have brought about enormous changes in this area. By using focus group discussion, in-dept interview and statistic data collection, the research shows that labour organizing in Northern Thailand has been taken in different from of labour trade unions. Labour employment in the North has seen its complex, composing of different categories of workers causes by regional industrialization as well as trade liberalization such as factory workers, precarious workers and a large of migrant workers. Coalition building of employers, workers, NGOs as well as local government can lead to labour strengthening and resolving of labour problems.
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