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Roberta Zavoretti - Rural Origins, City Lives - 9780295999241 - V9780295999241
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Rural Origins, City Lives

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Description for Rural Origins, City Lives Hardcover. Num Pages: 220 pages, 1 maps, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBTB; JFFN; JFSC; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 477.

A new understanding of rural-urban migration and inequality in contemporary China

Many of the millions of workers streaming in from rural China to jobs at urban factories soon find themselves in new kinds of poverty and oppression. Yet, their individual experiences are far more nuanced than popular narratives might suggest. Rural Origins, City Lives probes long-held assumptions about migrant workers in China. Drawing on fieldwork in Nanjing, Roberta Zavoretti argues that many rural-born urban-dwellers are—contrary to state policy and media portrayals—diverse in their employment, lifestyle, and aspirations. Working and living in the cities, such workers change China’s urban landscape, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295999241
SKU
V9780295999241
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-12

About Roberta Zavoretti
Roberta Zavoretti is a lecturer of social and cultural anthropology at the University of Cologne.

Reviews for Rural Origins, City Lives
"Paints a compelling, sensitive and nuanced picture of who China’s migrant workers are. . . . An enjoyable and rewarding read."
China Quarterly
"Succeeds in showing that the category ‘peasant worker’ is much more heterogeneous than official and popular discourses suggest."
Anthropology of Work Review
"Rural Origins, City Lives does what good ethnography should do: it ... Read more

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