High-value export-oriented agriculture is today considered as a means of integrating smallholders into the world economy. This paper examines the geographic and organisational changes that have taken place in the fresh pineapple sector over the past 50 years. We begin with a historical analysis...

A close examination of the organisation of the clothing industry in Thailand exhibits a rather paradoxial situation: although the structural features of the sector - breaking down of the production process, high labour intensity, low asset specificity, unskilled labour - seem to legitimise a...