Living with risk : precarity & Bangkok's urban poor

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Living with risk : precarity & Bangkok's urban poor

Tamaki Endo

(Kyoto CSEAS series on Asian studies, 10)

NUS Press , In association with Kyoto University Press, c2014

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Other Title

都市を生きる人々 : バンコク都市下層民のリスク対応

Living with risk : precarity and Bangkok's urban poor

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"This book is a revised translation of the Japanese edition, Toshi wo ikiru hitobito : Bankoku, toshi kasoumin no risuku taiou (Living with the risk : responses of the urban lower-class in Bangkok), published by Kyoto University Press in February 2011."--Acknowledgements (p. xiii)

"The publication of this book is funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) as Grant-in-Aid for Publication of Scientific Research Results"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-324) and index

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Table of Contents

  • 1 Rethinking the Urban Lower Class
  • 2 Urban Poverty‐Related Policy and Promotional Policies for the Informal Economy in Bangkok
  • 3 The Case Study Communities:History and Living Conditions
  • 4 The Urban Lower Class andTheir Occupations
  • 5 The Urban Lower Class and Their Residences
  • 6 Encountering Risk:Fire and Reconstruction of Residence and Communities
  • 7 Encountering Risk:Response of the Self‐Employed to the Fire and Resulting Class Disparities
  • 8 Encountering Risk:Layoffs and the Life Course of Female Workers
  • 9 Occupational and Class Mobility of the Urban Lower Class:The Path of “Upward Mobility”
  • 10 Conclusion

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