The Structure of Feelings in the Life Experience of Isan Migrant Labour: An Analysis of Tai Orathai's Lukthung Song

Abstract

This research aims to study the structure of feelings in the life experiences of Isan migrant workers by analyzing Tai Orathai's country songs. This study is an analytical and interpretive study of the song's content. The researcher relied on humanities research methods by analyzing data using the Structure of Feeling theoretical framework to analyze together with data on economic, social, political, and belief conditions in a descriptive analysis. The findings indicated that throughout the migration Because of the harsh natural environment, employees move to the city in the belief that their quality of life and that of their families will improve. Later, with migration, the sentimental structure of labor feelings started to represent humiliation. reflecting the differences in respect between employers and employees and in the last part of the retrospective of the old house, this is the period when the structure of labor's feelings reflects the sense of alienation of labor that arises in itself. This peculiarity comes from the imbalance between the use of force. wages incurred and self-conflict in the aspect of production in the end, the retrospective of old houses became a means of self-soothing by labor to alleviate the resulting alienation structure. He was aware that the laborer would be further exploited in order to get back to the systemic work. Considering that these workers have a hope other than their own. But Mimi brings the family along with them. The sentiment structure in these three periods of migrant life experiences therefore reflects Feelings hidden under the labor migration cycle the sensation structure thus helps to reveal the reality of the hidden feelings of labor which is reflected from Tai Orathai's Lukthung song.