the progress of late-developing economies like Thailand owed much to the expansion in labor intensive industries. Thailand’s boom decade saw textile and garment manufacturing , play a significant role in the growth of export-oriented industrialization. Over the past two decades the Board of Investment has promoted Thailand as a secure place for investment, with abundant cheap labor. Investors are also attracted by the reality that unenforced labor laws backed by low rates of trade unionism result in an ‘ease of doing business’, especially in labor intensive sectors, where the workforce is easily controlled.