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Intrahousehold Bargaining Among Women Workers in Thailand's 47 Northern Region Industrial Estate |
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| รหัสดีโอไอ | |
| Creator | Gullinee Mutakalin |
| Title | Intrahousehold Bargaining Among Women Workers in Thailand's 47 Northern Region Industrial Estate |
| Publisher | School of Development Economic |
| Publication Year | 2558 |
| Journal Title | Development Economic Review |
| Journal Vol. | 9 |
| Journal No. | 1 |
| Page no. | 47 |
| Keyword | Intrahousehold,Bargaining power, Women workers, Northern Region Industrial Estate, Thailand |
| ISSN | 1906-2540 |
| Abstract | This study specifically evaluated the effects of women's participation in Export Processing Zones (EPZs) on women's bargaining power by using Thailand's Northern Region Industrial Estate (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 for women to be included in formal employment, which brings higher earning to NRIE women workers compared with lower earning of hired women workers. Therefore, NRIE employment decomposes women's subordination by increasing the economic contribution of women within their households. However, the economic contribution of NRIE women workers does not radically increase NRIE women workers' intrahousehold bargaining power vis-?-vis their husbands. Household income keeping, control and management as well as household decision making 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, they are more subservient under an age hierarchy in households due to the strong influence of matrilineality and matrifocality. |
