How Migrant Labor Is Changing Rural China

by Rachel Murphy

Book Overview

One of the most dramatic and noticeable changes in China since the introduction of economic and social reforms in the early 1980s has been the mass migration of peasants from the countryside to urban areas across the country. Murphy's in-depth fieldwork in rural China offers a rich basis for her findings about the impact of migration on many aspects of rural life: inequality; the organization of agricultural production; land transfers; livelihood...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521005302
• ISBN13: 9780521005302
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 8.9"