Living with Risk : Precarity and Bangkok's Urban Poor /

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"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 d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Endō, Tamaki, 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Japonés
Publicado: Singapore : NUS Press in association with Kyoto University Press, Japan, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Pauvres en milieu urbain > Thaïlande > Bangkok.
Social Welfare & Social Work - General.
Social Sciences.
Social Welfare & Social Work.
Urban poor.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness
Urban poor > Thailand > Bangkok.
Bangkok.
Thailand > Bangkok.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Rethinking the urban lower class
  • Urban poverty-related policy and promotional policies for the informal economy in Bangkok
  • The case study communities : history and living conditions
  • The urban lower class and their occupations
  • The urban lower class and their residences
  • Encountering risk : fire and reconstruction of residence and communities
  • Encountering risk : response of the self-employed to the fire and resulting class disparities
  • Encountering risk : layoffs and the life course of female workers
  • Occupational and class mobility of the urban lower class : the path of "upward mobility"
  • Conclusion.

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