Living With Risk: Precarity & Bangkok s Urban Poor - Couverture souple

Endo, Tamaki

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9971697823 ISBN 13 : 9789971697822

Editeur : NUS Press, 2014

Synopsis

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 devastating fire. The book's detailed examination of the dynamics of the informal economy makes a substantial contribution to the literature on development economics in urban areas.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Tamaki Endo is a member of the Faculty of Economics at Saitama University in Japan.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: NUS Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9971697823
• ISBN 13: 9789971697822
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 360
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• Personne responsable: non disponible