Screen LibraryTrading in Uncertainty : Entrepreneurship, Morality and Trust in a Vietnamese Textile-Handling Village /
This book is an ethnographic case study, based on first hand observation, of family businesses in the northern Vietnamese village of Ninh Hi p along the Red River Delta, which became a major hub for textiles in the wake of the country s shift towards market socialism. The author explores how the tra...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55648-2 |
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This book is an ethnographic case study, based on first hand observation, of family businesses in the northern Vietnamese village of Ninh Hi p along the Red River Delta, which became a major hub for textiles in the wake of the country s shift towards market socialism. The author explores how the traders experience, negotiate and react to a marketization process that is markedly shaped by the state s morally ambivalent governance, and which can be thus characterised as an admixture of socialist and neoliberal ideologies. How are traders shaping the political economy of Vietnam? How has the la |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (XV, 239 pages): illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9783319556482 |
| Index Number: | NX180 |
| CLC: | F061.3 |
| Contents: | Chapter 1. Introduction: Neoliberal Governance and Market Socialism -- Chapter 2. The Village in the Market -- Chapter 3. Trading in Uncertainty -- Chapter 4. Building Families, Building Businesses -- Chapter 5. The Gendering of Market Trade -- Chapter 6. Trust and Entrepreneurialism -- Chapter 7. Spatial Organisation of Trade.- Chapter 8. Morality and the Making of a Community.- Chapter 9. Conclusion. . |