Title: Chinas̕  peasants and workers
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.
Subjects: Economic development, Urban poor, Urban-rural migration, Economic conditions, China, economic conditions, 1949-, Working class, Congresses
Places: China
Time periods: 1949-