Migrant Workers and the City

Name: Migrant Workers and the City
Brand: Fernwood Publishing
SKU: 9781552669167
Price: 17.99 EUR
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ISBN: 978-1-552-66916-7

Generation Now

de Huang Chuanhui (auteur), Henry Veltmeyer (avant-propos), Anna Beare (traduction)

Maison d'édition : Fernwood Publishing

octobre 2016

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Résumé

Fascinating…a must-read for academics, students and a general public interested in the situation of rural migrants in China. - Raúl Delgado Wise

Today China has the second largest economy in the world. The largest human migration in history has fueled this rapid growth as people move from the countryside to work in China’s fast growing industrial cities. But China is changing. Today’s migrants from the countryside are a world apart from their fathers and grandfathers who made the same journeys to the metropolis in search of work decades before them. The older generation made the journey with every expectation of returning to the countryside once they had made some money. Todays generation, better educated and connected by technology, expects higher wages from working in cities than is the reality. These workers do not want to return home to work on the farm, so they frequently take employment that is precarious and poorly paid.

In this refreshingly open and enlightening book we hear the stories and hopes for the future from the people who live in the basements of cities across China.

Auteur

Huang Chuanhui (auteur)

Huang Chuanhui, a National First-Class Writer, is a winner of the Zhuang Chongwen Literary Award and the author of I Want to Go to School and Chinese Navy. He lives in Beijing.
Henry Veltmeyer (Avant-propos de)

Henry Veltmeyer est professeur de sociologie et des études en développement international à l’Université Saint-Mary’s et est titulaire d’une nomination professorale au programme de doctorat en études du développement à la Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas (Mexique).