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Intrahousehold Bargaining Among Women Workers in Thailand’s Northern Region Industrial Estate

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Title Intrahousehold Bargaining Among Women Workers in Thailand’s Northern Region Industrial Estate
 
Creator Mutakalin, Gullinee
 
Description This study specifically evaluated the effects of women’s participation in Export ProcessingZones (EPZs) on women’s bargaining power by using Thailand’s Northern Region IndustrialEstate (NRIE) as a case study. It explored how EPZ employment affects NRIE women workers’bargaining power. The empirical findings show that NRIE work provides opportunities forwomen to be included in formal employment, which brings higher earning to NRIE womenworkers compared with lower earning of hired women workers. Therefore, NRIE employmentdecomposes women’s subordination by increasing the economic contribution of women withintheir households. However, the economic contribution of NRIE women workers does notradically increase NRIE women workers’ intrahousehold bargaining power vis-à-vis theirhusbands. Household income keeping, control and management as well as household decisionmaking and housework allocation do not tend towards a more egalitarian status in households.Although NIRE women workers are relatively well-off compared to hired women workers, theyare more subservient under an age hierarchy in households due to the strong influence ofmatrilineality and matrifocality.
 
Publisher Development Economic Review (พัฒนาการเศรษฐกิจปริทรรศน์)
 
Date 2015-01-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://tci-thaijo.org/index.php/NER/article/view/31763
 
Source Development Economic Review (พัฒนาการเศรษฐกิจปริทรรศน์); Vol 9 No 1 (2558): NIDA Economic Review Journal; 47
1906-2540
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://tci-thaijo.org/index.php/NER/article/view/31763/27269
 
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