Thailand at the Margins: Internationalization of the State and the Transformation of Labour (Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies Series)

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. Contents......Page 14 List of Figures and Maps......Page 15 List of Tables......Page 16 List of Abbreviations......Page 17 Introduction. The Problematic: Territorial State, International Capital, and Uneven Industrial Development in Thailand......Page 20 1. State Power Beyond the ‘Territorial Trap’: The Internationalization of the State......Page 30 2. Internationalization of the State under US Hegemony: Building the Cold War Regime and Capturing Peasants, 1945–1975......Page 52 3. Internationalization of the State under US Hegemony and Japanese Quasi-Hegemony: Promoting Industrialization and Disciplining Labour, 1945–2000......Page 93 4. Internationalization of the State under Japanese Quasi-Hegemony: Marginalizing Northern Workers, 1980–2000......Page 130 5. Interpreting Post-World War II Development in Thailand: More and Less than a National Phenomenon......Page 171 6. Uneven Economic Crisis, Industrial Restructuring, and the Politics of Development in a Post-Nationalist Era......Page 193 7. Conclusion: Thailand at the Margins......Page 222 Bibliography......Page 226 B......Page 248 C......Page 249 E......Page 250 G......Page 251 I......Page 252 L......Page 253 M......Page 254 O......Page 255 P......Page 256 S......Page 257 T......Page 258 W......Page 259 Annotation 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 atthe 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 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 than 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 E

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. 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 labor.

The 1980s were marked by two seemingly antithetical tendencies in theorizing about states.