The decentralization of the electronics industry within Thailand has been charac terized by gendered and environmental health repercussions. Young women come from all over Thailand to fill the gendered spaces available on the production lines for electronic components. In doing so, many young women also put their long-term health on the line. This paper analyzes the complex and contested environmental health issues brewing in the Northern Regional Industrial Estate in Lamphun, Thai land. The potentiality of environmental hazards within the electronics industry pro duces a contradictory situation for women workers who have an interest in paid work, but also in a healthy working environment. This paper explores women work ers' perceptions, reactions and modes of resistance and non-resistance to environ mental hazards in the Northern Regional Industrial Estate. Using Grown and Sebstad's (1989) 'livelihood systems' model as a theoretical framework, the paper analyzes how women workers reconcile their multiple and different interests—occu pational health, gendered and economic.
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