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Small Town China - Rural labour and social inclusion (Paperback)
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Small Town China - Rural labour and social inclusion (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition
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While much has been written about rural migrant workers'
experiences in the big cities, population movements into China's
vast network of towns and small cities has been largely neglected.
This book presents a detailed case study of rural migrant workers
experiences in a small town in a north China county. The author
explores the processes and institutions that enable or preclude the
social inclusion of rural workers into the town's socio-economic
system. Inclusion and exclusion are assessed through an examination
of rural workers' immersion into the urban labour market, their
access to welfare benefits and to social services, such as housing,
education and health. The book proposes that outside the larger
cities there are alternative accounts of urban social change and of
the integration of rural migrant workers. It stresses the fact that
the particular socio-economic structure of towns, where the
state-owned share of the economy has been smaller and where
consequently social and private forces have been more active,
allowed for a more open inclusion of rural workers. Though
shortcomings are still observed, the book suggests that China's
transformation may not necessarily result in dysfunctional and
socially polarized urban environments. This book will be of
interest to students and scholars of China's rural migrant workers,
bottom-up urbanization and small town development, social policy,
and more broadly on contemporary social change in China.
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