How Migrant Labor Is Changing Rural China

Klappentext This book examines how labor migration is changing the countryside in post-Mao China. Zusammenfassung This book examines how labor migration is changing the countryside in post-Mao China. The return flows of money! people and information affects rural inequalities! rural spending patterns! agriculture! family relationships! the position of women! and the interactions between villagers and officials. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Values, goals and resources; 2. China, Jiangxi and the fieldwork counties; 3. Resource redistribution and inequality; 4. Migration, remittances and goals; 5. Recruiting returnees to build enterprises and towns; 6. The enterprises and the entrepreneurs; 7. Entrepreneurs, socio-economic change, and interactions with the state; 8. Returning home with heavy hearts and empty pockets; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Murphy, Rachel (Jesus College Murphy
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.09.2002
• EAN: 9780521809016
• ISBN: 978-0-521-80901-6
• No. of pages: 306
• Series: Cambridge Modern China (Hardco; Cambridge Modern China; Cambridge Modern China Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education