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Shrimp and Grit: Labor and Agrarian Relations in Export-Driven Aquaculture in Thailand
Shrimp and Grit: Labor and Agrarian Relations in Export-Driven Aquaculture in Thailand
Shrimp and Grit: Labor and Agrarian Relations in Export-Driven Aquaculture in Thailand

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자료유형  
 학위논문 서양
최종처리일시  
20250211151352
ISBN  
9798382842769
DDC  
301
저자명  
Rainwater, Katie.
서명/저자  
Shrimp and Grit: Labor and Agrarian Relations in Export-Driven Aquaculture in Thailand
발행사항  
[Sl] : Cornell University, 2024
발행사항  
Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
형태사항  
183 p
주기사항  
Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-12, Section: B.
주기사항  
Advisor: Friedman, Elias.
학위논문주기  
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Cornell University, 2024.
초록/해제  
요약This dissertation examines the experiences of smallholders, farmworkers, and processing workers in Thailand's shrimp industry. Thailand, an upper middle-income country with a disproportionately large percentage of its population concentrated in the agricultural sector, has pursued non-traditional agro-exports - including shrimp export - as a central plank of its development strategy for the past half century. Thai seafood companies are among the largest in the world, but they now compete to sell their product against countries with lower labor costs and more pristine environments. In "Shrimp Farming in Thailand 4.0: Smallholders, Agri-capital, and the State", I examine the viability of smallholder farming consequent to emergent shrimp diseases and increased competition from shrimp-exporting states. While the industry has developed techniques - new systems of water management and fast-growing seed -to sustain production, smallholders lack sufficient support to fully implement these techniques. This case suggests that there are contradictions in the implementation of the "Thailand 4.0" policy which seeks to pivot to an economic growth model dependent upon technology while dramatically boosting smallholders' incomes. In "'Our Hope is with the Percentage': Rural Thai Shrimp Farm Workers and Non-Traditional Agro-Export Led Development", I examine the experience of local farmworkers on smallholder shrimp farms. Workers express satisfaction with the light work, the freedom from constant supervision, the capacity to live in their home communities, and especially a potentially substantial productivity bonus. Yet, on the whole, conditions of employment for local farmworkers were precarious as employers passed risks from disease and price volatility onto their workers by making compensation largely contingent upon bonuses tied to increasingly elusive successful harvests. Workers' relative satisfaction with their jobs reflects limited earning opportunities on and off farm. In "From Slave Labor to Wage Slaves: Persisting Relations of Unfreedom in Thailand's Export Driven Shrimp Processing Industry", I consider labor relations following interventions by the government, suppliers, and foreign buyers in response to condemnation of the sector's reliance on foreign "slave labor." I argue that the interventions have most clearly changed the sector's form of labor from undocumented migrants at unlicensed peeling sheds to documented workers at registered factories. This change has not led to the resolution of many issues - restrictions on workers' freedom of movement, low wages and long hours, and lack of voice in workplace governance - identified as problematic in exposes of "peeling shed slaves." Analyzed with reference to the distinction between bourgeois and republican understandings of freedom, the Thai case points to the limitations of this response to slavery allegations in bringing about substantive changes in labor relations.
일반주제명  
Sociology
일반주제명  
Agriculture
키워드  
Agrarian relations
키워드  
Aquaculture
키워드  
Slave labors
키워드  
Shrimp
키워드  
Smallholders
키워드  
Thailand
기타저자  
Cornell University Development Studies
기본자료저록  
Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-12B.
전자적 위치 및 접속  
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