Scattered Sand
The Story of China's Rural Migrants
Pai, Hsiao-Hung
Date Written: 2012-08-21
Publisher: Verso Books
Year Published: 2012
Pages: 316pp ISBN: 978-1844678860
Resource Type: Book
Cx Number: CX14598
Each year, 200 million workers from China’s vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human migration in history. This indispensable army of labour accounts for half of China’s GDP, but is an unorganized workforce — “scattered sand,” in Chinese parlance — and the most marginalized and impoverished group of workers in the country.
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