It's a living
It's a living work and life in Vietnam today / [electronic resource] :
edited by Gerard Sasges ; images by Mai Huyen Chi ; with a foreword by Andrew X. Pham.
- Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2013 Singapore : NUS Press, [2013]
- 1 online resource (1 PDF (xxiii, 313 pages) :) color illustrations
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Growing -- Feeding -- Building -- Moving -- Making -- Selling -- Managing -- Investing -- Protecting -- Repairing & recycling -- Cleaning -- Grooming -- Playing -- Teaching & learning -- Caring.
Through 67 interviews and 59 colour photographs, 'It's a Living' reveals the energy and struggle of the world of work in Vietnam today. A goldfish peddler installing aquariums, a business school graduate selling shoes on the sidewalk, a college student running an extensive multi-level sales network, and a girl doing promotions but intent on moving into management, are just a few of the people profiled. Based on frank and freewheeling interviews conducted by students, the book engages a broad range of Vietnamese, both living in Vietnam and abroad, on their feelings about work, life and getting ahead. By providing a ground-level view of the texture of daily working life in the midst of rapid and unsettling change, the book reveals Vietnam today as a place where ordinary people are leveraging whatever assets they have, not just to survive, but to make a better life for themselves, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
9789971697617
Vietnam--Social life and customs--21st century.
Vietnam--Economic conditions--21st century.
Vietnam--Social conditions--21st century.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HN700.5.A8 / I875 2013
306.09597
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Growing -- Feeding -- Building -- Moving -- Making -- Selling -- Managing -- Investing -- Protecting -- Repairing & recycling -- Cleaning -- Grooming -- Playing -- Teaching & learning -- Caring.
Through 67 interviews and 59 colour photographs, 'It's a Living' reveals the energy and struggle of the world of work in Vietnam today. A goldfish peddler installing aquariums, a business school graduate selling shoes on the sidewalk, a college student running an extensive multi-level sales network, and a girl doing promotions but intent on moving into management, are just a few of the people profiled. Based on frank and freewheeling interviews conducted by students, the book engages a broad range of Vietnamese, both living in Vietnam and abroad, on their feelings about work, life and getting ahead. By providing a ground-level view of the texture of daily working life in the midst of rapid and unsettling change, the book reveals Vietnam today as a place where ordinary people are leveraging whatever assets they have, not just to survive, but to make a better life for themselves, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
9789971697617
Vietnam--Social life and customs--21st century.
Vietnam--Economic conditions--21st century.
Vietnam--Social conditions--21st century.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HN700.5.A8 / I875 2013
306.09597