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Rural origins, city lives : class and place in contemporary China / Roberta Zavoretti.
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Zavoretti, Roberta
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English
Published/Created
Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2017]
©2017
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xviii, 202 pages : maps ; 24 cm
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HN740.Z9 S619982 2017
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Social classes
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China
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Rural-urban migration
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Social aspects
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China
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Migrant labor
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China
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China
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Social conditions
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2000-
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Summary note
"Many of the millions of workers streaming in from rural China to jobs at urban factories soon find themselves in new kinds of poverty and oppression. Yet, their individual experiences are far more nuanced than popular narratives might suggest. Rural Origins, City Lives probes long-held assumptions about migrant workers in China. Drawing on fieldwork in Nanjing, Roberta Zavoretti argues that many rural-born urban-dwellers are--contrary to state policy and media portrayals--heterogeneous in their employment, lifestyle, and aspirations. Working and living in the cities, rural-born workers change China's urban landscape, becoming part of an increasingly diversified and stratified society. Zavoretti finds that, over thirty years after the Open Door Reform, class formation, not residence status, is key to understanding inequality in contemporary China."--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-199) and index.
Contents
The paradigm of rural to urban migrationg in contemporary China
What is a "peasant worker"?
Speaking of oneself
A place of encounters
Earning, spending, consuming
Negotiating success
Making place, making class.
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ISBN
9780295999241 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
0295999241 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2016002919
OCLC
944179696
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