Rural laborers - Floating at the Margins

Author: Li Tao, Li Zhen
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: This city, every bridge in it, every vehicle, every day, every penny, its history, present, and future, are all intricately connected with the rural areas of China. We may choose not to read, but we cannot deny the existence of a group. Every picture records history, and every story is filled with emotion. In the early 1980s of the 20th century, the labor force entering cities in China was mainly composed of single young farmers. Starting from the mid-1990s, a new phenomenon emerged in the non-agricultural transfer wave—husbands and wives traveling together. The migrant worker group actually harbors enormous "potential," not only reflected in driving social and economic development but also in advancing employment model reform, educational reform for floating children, eliminating urban-rural disparities, and promoting rural spiritual civilization construction through a series of social institutional innovations. This book is a comprehensive survey of the vast migrant worker group, authentically recording their voices, needs, culture, and dreams.