Law and Precarity - Legal Consciousness and Daily Survival in Vietnam

"This book will be of interest to researchers and students of law and society, political economy, anthropology, and Asian studies. It offers an original understanding of the paradoxical effects of law in the survival strategies of people who are caught to live and work in precarious circumstances"--

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Law and precarity in daily life; 2. Law and social change in Vietnam; 3. Factory workers' early withdrawal of social insurance benefits; 4. Early retirement by workers in a former state-owned enterprise; 5. Illegal house construction in peri-urban areas; Conclusion; Appendix-Laws cited; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Tu Phuong Nguyen researches labor law, law and society, political economy, state and society relations, and gender in Vietnam. She is the author of Workplace Justice: Rights and Labour Resistance in Vietnam (2019). She is a member of Asian Law and Society Association (ALSA).

Summary

This book will be of interest to researchers and students of law and society, political economy, anthropology, and Asian studies. It offers an original understanding of the paradoxical effects of law in the survival strategies of people who are caught to live and work in precarious circumstances.

Foreword

Offers an original understanding of the mutually reinforcing relationship between law and precarity in daily life in Vietnam.

Product details

• Authors: Tu Phuong Nguyen, Tu Phuong (University of Adelaide) Nguyen
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2023
• EAN: 9781009180474
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0918047-4
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Vietnam, Ethnic Studies, LAW / General, Poverty & unemployment, Political Economy, Black & Asian Studies, Employment & Labour Law, Poverty and precarity, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law, Employment and labour law: general