Rural Migrant Workers -- An Economic and Social Analysis of China's Urbanizing Rural Migrant Workers

Author: Li Peilin
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Features: The flow of rural workers into cities has formed a trend since the early 1980s of the 20th century and, by the 1990s, had replaced township enterprises as the main channel for rural labor mobility and the transfer of surplus rural labor. This is an irreversible process in China's accelerated urbanization and industrial restructuring. It is also an extremely profound institutional transformation. This process benefits both farmers and society at large and is the necessary path to bridging the urban-rural divide. The influx of rural workers into cities naturally brings various new social issues. How to address, prioritize, and specifically resolve these issues, creating conditions for rural workers to smoothly integrate into urban life and transform into new urban citizens, is a challenge this book addresses from many new perspectives.
This book compiles the latest research findings from authoritative institutions and scholars in China on rural worker issues in recent years, presenting a high-level academic collection of essays. These essays focus on exploring topics such as the relationship between rural worker mobility and urbanization, the impact of mobility on social status changes, the influence of the WTO and economic globalization on rural worker movement, the educational situation of rural workers' children, and the urban spatial structure and residential location arrangements for rural workers.
These essays play a positive role in helping us accurately grasp the overall trends of rural worker mobility, address the various issues arising from it, and promptly provide policy adjustments and institutional innovations that meet the demands of this profound transformation.