Hara Factory Workers Struggle

Join us for a screeening of Jon Uengphakorn's documentary Hara Factory Workers Struggle (1975): The seizure and occupation of the Hara Factory by its own female workers in October 1975 has been recognized as a unique event in the history of labour disputes in Thailand. Scholars have viewed the factory occupation – later re-opened under the name The United Labourers Factory – as a means to an end in order to bargain with the oppressive employer to give them better working conditions.The United Labourers Factory was, arguably, a radical, concrete manifesto of a certain group of workers in modern Thai history.