Thailand at the Margins: Internationalization of the State and the Transformation of Labour(Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies)

Series: Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies

Jim Glassman addresses the role of the state in the industrial transformation of what was, before the economic crisis of 1997-98, one of Southeast Asia's fastest growing economies. Analyzing the Cold War period, the period of the economic boom, as well as the economic crisis and its political aftershock, Thailand at the Margins recasts the story of the Thai state's post-World War II development pe