What is it about?
Globalization and privatization evolve the work systems and labor-management relationships in the Thai economy. The government action and extensive privatization of state enterprises cause the weakness of union in both state-owned and private enterprises in the long run.
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Why is it important?
The Thai economic change is not yet benefited to most of the working population as the union is weakened, and the relationship of labour and mangement is not a kind of participatory one.
Perspectives
Since the globalization and deregulation affect the weakness of Thai unions. Meanwhile, a new Thai democratic political system backing up by the new 1997 constitution has not served to reverse this trend and seems likely not in the foreseeable future.
Dr Chokchai Suttawet
Mahidol University
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This page is a summary of: Labour unions, globalization and deregulation in Thailand, Asia Pacific Business Review, January 2000, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/13602380012331288542.
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