Women on the Move: Hanoi's Migrant Roving Street Vendors
By Donald M. Peppard, Jr., Vu Thi Minh Thang Rolf Jensen.
Description
This book is about a group of rural women in Vietnam who leave their husbands and children at home and go to Hanoi, often for weeks or more at a time, to work as roving street vendors. An important feature of Vietnam's Doi Moi reforms that began in 1986 was that the household was made responsible for its own economic well-being. For many rural families, increasingly unable to survive on agriculture alone, this has meant a growing reliance on the market economy for an outside source of income. For the families of roving street vendors, like many other rural families, women are the o...
ISBN(s)
6045618343, 9786045618349
