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Living With Risk: Precarity & Bangkok's Urban Poor (Kyoto CSEAS Series on Asian Studies)
Tamaki Endo
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Description for Living With Risk: Precarity & Bangkok's Urban Poor (Kyoto CSEAS Series on Asian Studies)
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. Series: Kyoto CSEAS Series on Asian Studies. Num Pages: 360 pages, 30 photographs, 20 maps & figures. BIC Classification: JFFA; JFSG; KCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 550.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
NUS Press
Condition
New
Series
Kyoto CSEAS Series on Asian Studies
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Singapore, Singapore
ISBN
9789971697822
SKU
V9789971697822
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Ref
99-3
About Tamaki Endo
Tamaki Endo is a member of the Faculty of Economics at Saitama University in Japan.
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