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The Resource Scattered sand : the story of China's rural migrants, Hsiao-Hung Pai ; preface by Gregor Benton

Scattered sand : the story of China's rural migrants, Hsiao-Hung Pai ; preface by Gregor Benton

Label
Scattered sand : the story of China's rural migrants
Title
Scattered sand
Title remainder
the story of China's rural migrants
Statement of responsibility
Hsiao-Hung Pai ; preface by Gregor Benton
Creator
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
Argues that the two hundred million Chinese migrant workers represent the country's most marginalized and impoverished group and cites the brutal conditions they endure, from illness to documented labor militancy
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Pai, Hsiao-Hung
Dewey number
331.5/440951
Index
no index present
LC call number
HD5856.C5
LC item number
P35 2012
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Migrant labor
  • Rural-urban migration
  • China
  • China
  • Economic history
  • Migrant labor
  • Rural-urban migration
  • Social conditions
  • China
  • Migration
  • Saisonarbeiter
  • Soziale Stellung
  • China
  • Migration
  • Arbetsmiljö
  • Arbetsmigration
  • Migrant labor
  • Rural-urban migration
  • China
  • China
Label
Scattered sand : the story of China's rural migrants, Hsiao-Hung Pai ; preface by Gregor Benton
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-302)
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Exodus: Northeast youth head for the city -- Earthquakes in bohemia: life and death in Sichuan -- Dust and heat: black mines in the Yellow River region -- The dark kilns: brickmaking in the North -- 'Bad elements': the uprooted and the permanently impoverished in Shandong -- The factory of the world: recession in Guangdong -- In the shadows of Olympians: unorganized workers in Beijing -- Go west! The migration industry in rural Fujian -- Epilogue: Trouble on the new frontier--ethnic tensions in Xinjiang
Control code
ocn767564446
Dimensions
22 cm
Extent
xiii, 302 pages
Isbn
9781844679201
Lccn
2012016668
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
7218910
System control number
  • (Sirsi) i9781844678860
  • (OCoLC)767564446
Label
Scattered sand : the story of China's rural migrants, Hsiao-Hung Pai ; preface by Gregor Benton
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-302)
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Exodus: Northeast youth head for the city -- Earthquakes in bohemia: life and death in Sichuan -- Dust and heat: black mines in the Yellow River region -- The dark kilns: brickmaking in the North -- 'Bad elements': the uprooted and the permanently impoverished in Shandong -- The factory of the world: recession in Guangdong -- In the shadows of Olympians: unorganized workers in Beijing -- Go west! The migration industry in rural Fujian -- Epilogue: Trouble on the new frontier--ethnic tensions in Xinjiang
Control code
ocn767564446
Dimensions
22 cm
Extent
xiii, 302 pages
Isbn
9781844679201
Lccn
2012016668
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
7218910
System control number
  • (Sirsi) i9781844678860
  • (OCoLC)767564446

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