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Rural Labor Flows in China
The essays in this collection pose questions critical to understanding the broad topic of rural labor migration in China, situates it within the theoretical literature on the subject, and comes to important conclusions. The authors draw not just on their own research, but also on other survey research and empirical studies done in China on the subject over the past decade. The volume is invaluable to anyone seeking to understand the phenomenon of China's internal migration and also to people doing research on labor flows in other developing countries.
Loraine A. West is currently a manager at the U.S. Bureau of the Census.
Yaohui Zhao is professor of economics at the China Center for Economic Research of Peking University. Education: B.A. Peking University, M.A. Peking University, Ph.D. University of Chicago
Yaohui Zhao is professor of economics at the China Center for Economic Research of Peking University. Education: B.A. Peking University, M.A. Peking University, Ph.D. University of Chicago
"The Ford Foundation has sponsored a number of research projects to investigate the characteristics of the migrant workers and the conditions they face. This edited book contains a dozen papers from these projects that were presented at a conference in Beijing in 1996.... The quality of their chapters is almost uniformly high."—Jonathan Unger, The Australian National University, The China Journal, no. 45 (January 2001): 171–172.
"Although books and articles on internal migration in China have proliferated recently, this volume provides an exceptionally fine collection of essays that contain information and data useful for historical and comparative analyses in future case studies. Rural Labor Flows in China is strongly recommended for graduate students, researchers, and policy makers interested in labor issues in China."—Young-Jin Choi, PhD Candidate at the University of Hawai'i, China Review International 8, no. 2 (Fall 2001): 578-580
“The most significant aspect of this book is that it offers intensive empirical data collected from both origin and destination places of migrants at macro and micro contexts […] Another strength is that this volume affords some penetrating views that most former research on Chinese internal migration has ignored.”—Feng Zhang, University of British Columbia, Pacific Affairs 74, no. 3 (Autumn 2001): 420-422
"Although books and articles on internal migration in China have proliferated recently, this volume provides an exceptionally fine collection of essays that contain information and data useful for historical and comparative analyses in future case studies. Rural Labor Flows in China is strongly recommended for graduate students, researchers, and policy makers interested in labor issues in China."—Young-Jin Choi, PhD Candidate at the University of Hawai'i, China Review International 8, no. 2 (Fall 2001): 578-580
“The most significant aspect of this book is that it offers intensive empirical data collected from both origin and destination places of migrants at macro and micro contexts […] Another strength is that this volume affords some penetrating views that most former research on Chinese internal migration has ignored.”—Feng Zhang, University of British Columbia, Pacific Affairs 74, no. 3 (Autumn 2001): 420-422