Vu thi minh thang (6 risultati)

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Paperback. Condizione: Good. 194 pages. cover worn, This book is about a group of rural women in Vietnam who leave their husbands and children at home and go to Hanoi, often for weeks or more at a time, to wor k as roving street vendors. An important feature of Vietnam's Doi Moi reforms th at began in 1986 was that the household was made responsible for its own economi c well-being. For many rural families, increasingly unable to survive on agricul ture alone, this has meant a growing reliance on the market economy for an outsi de source of income. For the families of roving street vendors, like many other rural families, women are the ones who assume this responsibility. They migrate to work in the informal sector of Hanoi's rapidly growing urban economy, but the y do this precisely so that they and their families can maintain their rural ide ntities. They must, consequently, balance the conflicting demands that are impos ed on their time between the need to be in Hanoi to earn money and the need to b e at home for a variety of ceremonial, agricultural, and family obligations. The book delves into both the rural and urban lives of these women to examine the n ature of the job they perform, why they do it, and, importantly, why it is they and not their husbands who migrate in order to find work. It also contains numer ous anecdotal stories that illustrate many of the difficulties they encounter as they go back and forth between city and country in a rapidly changing Vietnames e economy.…

Coloured map and photographic plates, xvii + 164pp, appendix, bibliography, notes. As new paperback copy. This book devles into the rural and urban lives of the women in Vietnam who come to Hanoi to work as roving street vendors, in an attempt to examine the nature of the job that they perform, why they perform it, and why it is they and not their husbands who migrate to find work. (Adapted from blurb).…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The cover has a little wear. A few pages are dog-earred. 164 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.