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Product Description: Economic reform in China has resulted in a widening gap between the rich and the poor, and urban poverty has emerged as a key factor which may affect future development. This new book examines the poverty problem in relation to housing and social changes in large inland cities, and assesses the effectiveness of recent government anti-poverty policies...read more
Hardcover:
9780415307383 | Routledge, February 28, 2005, cover price $155.00
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9780415653046, titled "Urban Poverty, Housing and Social Change in China" | Routledge, July 11, 2012, cover price $48.95 | About this edition: Economic reform in China has resulted in a widening gap between the rich and the poor, and urban poverty has emerged as a key factor which may affect future development.
Product Description: Although the Chinese economy is growing at a very high rate, there are massive social dislocations arising as a result of economic restructuring. Though the scale of the problem is huge, very few studies have examined the changes in income inequality in the late 1990s due to a lack of data on household incomes...read more
Hardcover:
9780415338721 | Routledge, June 30, 2006, cover price $185.00
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9780415654661 | Routledge, November 28, 2012, cover price $48.95 | About this edition: Although the Chinese economy is growing at a very high rate, there are massive social dislocations arising as a result of economic restructuring.
Miscellaneous:
9780203446515 | Routledge, August 30, 2006, cover price $175.00 | About this edition: Although the Chinese economy is growing at a very high rate, there are massive social dislocations arising as a result of economic restructuring.
Product Description: This unique and fascinating book explores three decades of economic change in China and the consequent transformation of class relations and class-consciousness in villages and in the urban workplace. The expert contributors illustrate how the development of the urban economic environment has led to changes in the urban working class, through an exploration of the workplace experiences of rural migrant workers, and of the plight of the old working class in the state-owned sector...read more
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9781781005729, titled "ChinaÃs Peasants and Workers: Changing Class Identities" | Edward Elgar Pub, November 12, 2012, cover price $111.00 | About this edition: This unique and fascinating book explores three decades of economic change in China and the consequent transformation of class relations and class-consciousness in villages and in the urban workplace.
Product Description: Urban poverty is an emerging problem. This book explores the household and neighbourhood factors that lead to both the generation and continuance of urban poverty in China. It is argued that the urban Chinese are not a homogenous social group, but combine laid-off workers and rural migrants, resulting in stark contrasts between migrant and workers' neighbourhoods and villages...read more
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9781847209696 | Edward Elgar Pub, March 1, 2010, cover price $136.00 | About this edition: Urban poverty is an emerging problem.
Product Description: Post-Mao market reforms in China have led to a massive migration of rural peasants toward the cities. Officially denied residency in the cities, the over 80 million members of this "floating population" provide labor for the economic boom in urban areas but are largely denied government benefits that city residents receive...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780520213470 | Univ of California Pr, April 1, 1999, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Post-Mao market reforms in China have led to a massive migration of rural peasants toward the cities.
Paperback:
9780520217966 | Univ of California Pr on Demand, April 1, 1999, cover price $38.95
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