Farmers are ageing across Asia. This is presented as a 'problem'with implications for
agricultural productivity, rural poverty and elderly care. Drawing on fieldwork in Thailand we …

Vietnam's economic transformation has been widely celebrated. Since the onset of market
reforms in the late 1980s, rural communities with endemic rural poverty in the Red River …

Vietnam is a one-party state with a single state-led union federation and significant numbers
of wildcat strikes. In January 2021, independent worker representative organisations …

Over a hundred years after the first socialist revolution broke the global monopoly of
capitalism, a new class of socialist-oriented socioeconomic development is coming to the …

Rural areas and rural people have been centrally implicated in Southeast Asia's
modernisation. Through the three entry points of smallholder persistence, upland …

This introductory chapter outlines developments in China, Vietnam and Laos over the recent
decades and places these cases in the literature on development as well as in the …

This book explores how capital-labour relations and antagonisms structure forms of
militancy in Vietnam and shows that Vietnamese labour militancy is in line with global trends …

Scholarship on labour informalisation in Vietnam pulls in two different directions. One set of
policy-focused literature suggests that there is an increasing formalisation of labour …

The performance of banks is a great barometer of the sustainability of the economy,
particularly for emerging economies. In the expansion of its economy, over the last decade …

This article analyses the nature of female activism within the context of the Vietnamese
export‐oriented manufacturing industry. It highlights women's potential as change agents …