Recommended reading

On labour issues in Myanmar:

Lubeigt, Guy
2007 Industrial Zones in Burma and Burmese Labour in Thailand. In Myanmar: The State, Community and the Environment, eds. Monique Skidmore and Trevor Wilson. Canberra: Australian National University Press.

On Myanmar migrant workers abroad:

Arnold, Dennis
2007 Capital Expansion and migrant workers: Flexible labor in the Thai-Burma border economy. Bangkok: Mahidol University.

Arnold, Dennis and John Pickles
2011 Global Work, Surplus Labor, and the Precarious Economies of the Border.
Antipode 43(5): 1598-1624.

Arnold, Dennis and Kevin Hewison
2006 Exploitation in Global Supply Chains: Burmese Migrant Workers in Mae Sot, Thailand. Journal of Contemporary Asia 35 (3): 319-340.

Latt, Sai. S.W.
2011 More than culture, gender, and class: erasing Shan labor in the “Success” of Thailand’s Royal Project. Critical Asian Studies. 43(4):531-550.

Pollock, Jackie and Soe Lin Aung
2010 Critical Times: gendering implications of the economic crisis for migrant workers from Burma/Myanmar in Thailand. Gender and Development 18 (2): 213-227.

General labour:

Brinton, Maurice
2004 For Workers’ Power: The Selected Writings of Maurice Brinton. Oakland: AK Press.

Glaberman, Martin
2002 ‘Punching Out’, in Lynd, S. (ed) Punching Out and Other Writings. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr.