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China's Peasants and Workers: Changing Class Identities, PDF eBook

China's Peasants and Workers: Changing Class Identities PDF

Edited by Beatriz Carrillo, David S.G. Goodman

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This unique and fascinating book explores three decades of economic change in China and the consequent transformation of class relations and class-consciousness in villages and in the urban workplace.

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.

Presenting new, original field research detailing social and socio-economic change in China, this book will prove invaluable to scholars, researchers and postgraduate students with an interest in Asian studies, public policy, regional and urban studies, political science or sociology.

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