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Kyoto CSEAS Series on Asian Studies 10
Living with Risk
Precarity & Bangkok’s Urban Poor
328 pages
ISBN: 9784876983599
pub. date: 02/14
"Southeast Asian Studies", Vol. 4, No. 2, August 2015, pp. 421-424.
Reviewed by Dr. Danny Marks.
"Pacific Affairs", Forthcoming issue.
Reviewed by Dr. Gisèle Yasmeen.
"Journal of Southeast Asian Studies" Volume 46, Issue 02, June 2015, pp.336-337.
Reviewed by Dr. Jonathan Rigg
Reviewed by Dr. Danny Marks.
"Pacific Affairs", Forthcoming issue.
Reviewed by Dr. Gisèle Yasmeen.
"Journal of Southeast Asian Studies" Volume 46, Issue 02, June 2015, pp.336-337.
Reviewed by Dr. Jonathan Rigg
Tamaki ENDO is an Associate Professor and teaches economics and area studies at the Faculty of Economics, Saitama University in Japan.
List of TabLes
List of Figures
List of Photographs
List of Abbreviations
Column Series
Measurements
Titles
Acknowledgements
Introduction
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 and Their 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
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
List of Figures
List of Photographs
List of Abbreviations
Column Series
Measurements
Titles
Acknowledgements
Introduction
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 and Their 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
Appendices
Bibliography
Index