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180-day rental: Waste and Wealth

180-day rental: Waste and Wealth
Author: Nguyen, Minh T. N.
Price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0190692618
ISBN-13: 9780190692612
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Duration: 180 Days

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Waste and Wealth examines questions of value, labor, and morality underlining the translocal waste trading networks originating from a rural district in Vietnam. Considering waste as an economic category of global significance, this book shows migrant laborers' complex negotiations with political economic forces to remake their social and moral lives. It also illuminates how the waste traders seek to construct viable identities in the face of stigmatization, insecurity, and precarity. Waste and Wealth makes an important contribution to global studies of human economies and post-socialist transformations, demonstrating how the forces of globalization blend with local historical-cultural dynamics to shape the valuation of people and things.