Chinas̕  peasants and workers
Subtitle: changing class identities
By: edited by Beatriz Carrillo and David S.G. Goodman
Series: CSC China perspectives
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9781781005729
Subjects: Economic development; Urban poor; Urban-rural migration; Economic conditions
Description: The expert contributors illustrate how the development of the urban economic environment has led to changes in the urban working class, through an exploration of the workplace experiences of rural migrant workers, and of the plight of the old working class in the state-owned sector. They address questions on the extent to which migrant workers have become a new working class, are absorbed into the old working class, or simply remain as migrant workers. Changes in class relations in villages in the urban periphery, where the urbanization drive and in-migration has lead to a new local politics of class differentiation, are also raised.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-160) and index.