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Thailand at the Margins

Internationalization of the State and the Transformation of Labour

by (author) Jim Glassman

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Initial publish date
May 2005
Category
Geography
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780199267637
    Publish Date
    May 2005
    List Price
    $310.00

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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. Approaching this issue from a different angle to those dominating 1980s and 1990s debates about the role of states in East Asian growth, Glassman argues that the Thai state has been both proactive and interventionist in encouraging industrial transformation - contrary to what neo-liberals have asserted - but at the same time has not been a 'developmental' state of the sort championed by neo-Weberian analysts of East Asia.

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 performance by focusing on uneven industrialization and the interaction between internationalization and the transformation of Thai labour.

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Jim Glassman is an Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia.