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Globalisation and labour mobility in China / edited by Ingrid Nielsen, Russell Smyth and Marika Vicziany.

Title
Globalisation and labour mobility in China / edited by Ingrid Nielsen, Russell Smyth and Marika Vicziany.
Publication
Clayton, Vic. : Monash University Press, c2007.

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Additional Authors
  • Nielsen, Ingrid
  • Smyth, Russell
  • Vicziany, Marika
Description
234 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
Summary
Over the last 20 years China's extraordinary rate of economic growth has been driven by the 120-150 million people who have flocked into China's cities from the surrounding countryside ins search of a better life. This book examines the way in which these people live, work, and interact with their urban cousins.
Alternative Title
Globalisation and labor mobility in China
Subject
  • Labor mobility > China
  • Globalization > China
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-233).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Movement of the masses in the global economy / Ingrid Nielsen, Russell Smyth and Marika Vicziany -- Globalisation and the shortage of rural workers : a macroeconomic perspective / Wang Dewen, Cai Fang and Gao Wenshu -- Labour market liberalisation in China and its impact on the world economy / James Xiaohe Zhang -- Minority entrepreneurs on the move--the Uygurs / Marika Vicziany and Guibin Zhang -- Labour mobility and the ASEAN-China free trade area / David Treisman -- Working conditions of migrant labourers / Serena Lillywhite -- 'Better city, better life'--for whom? / Ingrid Nielsen and Russell Smyth -- The comparative basic living conditions and leisure activities of China's off-farm migrants and urban locals / Ingrid Nielsen and Russell Smyth -- Labour migration and tuberculosis in rural China : a case study of Henan province / Sukhan Jackson, Adrian C. Sleigh, Wang Guo-Jie and Lui Xi-Li -- Workers and migrants : China and India circa 2005 / Amiya Kumar Bagchi -- Globalisation and labour's losses : insights from the study of China, France and Mexico / Dorothy J. Solinger -- The changing dynamics of labour migration in China and Mexico / Kenneth Roberts.
ISBN
  • 9781876924478
  • 1876924470
LCCN
^^2007300268
OCLC
  • 166359225
  • SCSB-11783474
Owning Institutions
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