China's peasants and workers : changing class identities / edited by Beatriz Carrillo and David S.G. Goodman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carrillo, Beatriz (Lecturer in China studies)

Goodman, David S. G.

Series:

CSC China perspectives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development--China.

Economic development.

Urban-rural migration.

Urban poor.

China.

Urban poor--China.

Urban-rural migration--China.

China--Economic conditions--1949-.

Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

xii, 164 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA : Edward Elgar, [2012]

Summary:

Given the importance of class and class consciousness to the founding ideology of revolutionary China, it is somewhat surprising that there has been little attention to the topic of class in consideration of the economic changes that have transformed China since 1978 and the advent of the Reform Era. The editors (both of the U. of Sydney, Australia) redress that lacuna by presenting six papers from a workshop on class formation and class consciousness among and between the peasantry, migrant workers, and the urban working class over the past three decades of reform. Topics include: status groups and classes in a Chinese village from the Mao era through post-Mao industrialization; land, place, and class in urbanizing Guangdong; the making and re-making of the working class in South China; factors constraining the emergence of class consciousness among Chinese migrant workers; industrial restructuring and class transformation; and old and new working-class cultural spaces. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-160) and index.

ISBN:

9781781005729

1781005729

OCLC:

808418121