Chapter 1&2: Thai Women

Question 1

Who and what is Mary Beth Mills explaining

Answer 1

The role of Thai women in the Global Assembley Line and in Thai modernity through labor migration, mobility, shifting identity, and subordination of rural producers

Question 2

What is modernity

Answer 2

Process of urbanization. Transformation for women. Form of political and economic organization particularly that associated with contemporary nation-state an industrial capitalism. Perspective in which pursuit of modern social forms and institutions is hailed as a movement toward socially laborized goals of progress, growth, and advancement

Question 3

What can you say about Global Economy

Answer 3

Mobility of rural Thai youth represents one more instance of how the contemporary global economy consistently relies on rural migrants and especially women

Question 4

What guidelines were in place for building a national community

Answer 4

Taxation, laws, military, infrastructure, Govenment, political organization, global economy,

Question 5

How are villagers portrayed by media

Answer 5

Low social status and subordinate position in Thai society. Ignorant.

Question 6

Extra Credit: NAFTA

Answer 6

North American Free Trade Agreement. Brought increasing public attention to movement of U.S industries “offshore.”