It's a living [electronic resource] : work and life in Vietnam today / edited by Gerard Sasges ; images by Mai Huyen Chi ; with a foreword by Andrew X. Pham.

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TextPublication details: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2013 2015); Singapore : NUS Press, [2013] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (1 PDF (xxiii, 313 pages) :) color illustrationsISBN:

9789971697617

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

306.09597 23

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HN700.5.A8 I875 2013

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Growing -- Feeding -- Building -- Moving -- Making -- Selling -- Managing -- Investing -- Protecting -- Repairing & recycling -- Cleaning -- Grooming -- Playing -- Teaching & learning -- Caring.

Summary: 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.

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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.

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