It's a living
Subtitle: work and life in Vietnam today
By: edited by Gerard Sasges ; images by Mai Huyen Chi ; with a foreword by Andrew X. Pham
Publisher: NUS Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Singapore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9789971696986
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Social conditions; Economic conditions; Social life and customs
Description: 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.
Notes: In English.