UMD 10 Lives of Migrant Factory Workers from Rural Areas: Political, Social, and Economic Lives of Migrant Workers in the Hlaing Tha Yar Industrial Zone Author: Tin Maung Htwe The changes in livelihood of migrants from rural areas when they move to work in factories in industrial zones is investigated in this volume by analysis of these above aspects of their lives while looking at how they can improve their livelihoods, social relations, and labor rights in the context of Myanmar’s contemporary labor laws and the economic, social and political factors that drive workers to migrate from rural to urban industrial areas.