Trading in Uncertainty Entrepreneurship, Morality and Trust in a Vietnamese Textile-Handling Village /

• Main Author: Horat, Esther (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Ethnology.; Economic history.; Development economics.; Asia > Economic conditions.; Culture - Economic aspects.; Ethnography.; Economics.; Cultural Economics.; Asian Economics.; Economic History.; Development Economics.; Cultural Anthropology.

This book is an ethnographic case study, based on first hand observation, of family businesses in the northern Vietnamese village of Ninh Hiệp 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 tr...

Table of 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. .