Beneath the China boom : labor, citizenship, and the making of a rural land market /

Beneath the China boom : labor, citizenship, and the making of a rural land market /

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Author / Creator:Chuang, Julia, author.
Imprint:Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
Description:xvii, 231 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Urbanization -- China.
Economic development -- China.
Migrant labor -- China.
Migration, Internal -- Economic aspects -- China.
Migration, Internal -- Social aspects -- China.
Economic development.
Economic policy.
Migrant labor.
Migration, Internal -- Economic aspects.
Migration, Internal -- Social aspects.
Rural conditions.
Urbanization.
China -- Rural conditions.
China -- Economic policy.
China.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12033283
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ISBN:9780520305441
0520305442
9780520305458
0520305450
9780520973428
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"For nearly four decades, China's manufacturing boom has been powered by the labor of 287 million rural migrant workers, who travel seasonally between villages where they farm for subsistence and cities where they work. However, local governments have pivoted away from manufacturing and toward urban expansion and construction as a development strategy. As a result, at least 88 million rural people have lost rights to village land. In Beneath the China Boom, Julia Chuang follows the trajectories of rural workers once supported by a village welfare state and now landless. The book provides a view of the undertow of China's economic success, and the periodic crises-a rural fiscal crisis, runaway urbanization-that it first creates and then must resolve"--

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