ERC Consolidator Grant · 2024
Finance and Risk in the Lives of Working People in Market Socialist Asia
The rise of household financial activities such as mortgages, consumer credits and private insur-ance among working people in China, Vietnam and Laos signals new patterns of accumulation alongside the commodification of labour that has been central to their national development. In these market socialist countries, where marketization is deepening under the rule Communist par-ty states, governments are turning to financialization to ensure growth and fill the gaps of social provisioning. Via financial products and services, debt and private risk management are being promoted to working people as the means to wealth accumulation and social protection, drawing household reproduction into the…
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