Living with Risk: Precarity & Bangkok's Urban Poor Tapa blanda - 2014

Singapore.: NUS Press.. 2014.. Colour and black and white photographic illustrations, xiv + 333pp, appendices, bibliography, index, paperback, a very good copy. This book examines lower class communities in the inner city and the urban fringe of Bangkok view their employment prospects and living conditions, and how they manage risk. As a case study, the author examines the lives of female workers who became self employed after losing factory jobs during Thailand's economic restructuring in the late 1990s. .

Paperback / softback. New. The informal economy in Bangkok, Thailand, offers upward mobility but is fraught with risk. For members of the urban lower class, residence and occupation are closely inter-connected. Shifts in priorities in housing, occupation and education as family circumstances change affect the way they deploy their limited financial resources, while home fires and job lay-offs make it necessary for poor communities to accommodate frequent changes of residence and variations in production and consumption. People with limited resources are extremely sensitive to uncertainty. Living with Risk examines how lower class communities in the inner city and the urban fringe of Bangkok view their employment prospects and living conditions, and how they manage risk. The author draws on two case studies, one considering the situation of women who became self-employed after losing factory jobs during Thailand's economic restructuring in the late 1990s, and the second a community displaced by a… Leer más

Singapore Univ Pr, 2014. Paperback. New. 360 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches.

Singapore.: NUS Press.. 2014.. Colour and black and white photographic illustrations, xiv + 333pp, appendices, bibliography, index, paperback. This book examines lower class communities in the inner city and the urban fringe of Bangkok view their employment prospects and living conditions, and how they manage risk. As a case study, the author examines the lives of female workers who became self employed after losing factory jobs during Thailand's economic restructuring in the late 1990s. .

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.