Rural origins, city lives class and place in contemporary China / Roberta Zavoretti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zavoretti, Roberta, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social classes--China.

Social classes.

Migrant labor.

Rural-urban migration--Social aspects.

China.

China--Social conditions--2000-.

Physical Description:

xviii, 202 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2017.

Summary:

"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."--Rabat de la jaquette

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295999241

OCLC:

966446912