| The research project aims at studying the emerging trends of labour relations in the garment factories of Northern Vietnam as well as the interplay between work, gender, kinship and localism. It will examine women workers everyday experiences in three cases: a state-owned factory, a local private factory and a foreign-owned factory, with a view to finding out female workers responses to the changes in the wake of state-owned enterprise reforms, the emergence of the private sectors and the rapid speed of urbanization. The main research question is what are the impacts that the shift to a freemarket has imposed on female workers daily experiences in factories having different organizational structures. |
