Scattered Sand The Story of China's Rural Migrants

Name: Scattered Sand The Story of China's Rural Migrants
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ISBN: 9781844678860

ISBN-10: 1844678865

ISBN-13: 9781844678860

Edition: 2nd 2012

Authors: Hsiao-Hung Pai, Gregor Benton

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Each year, 200 million workers from China’s vast rural interior travel between cities and regions in search of employment: the largest human migration in history. This indispensable army of labor contributes half of China’s GDP, but is an unorganized workforce—scattered sand—and the most marginalized and impoverished group of workers in the country.For two years, the award-winning journalist Hsiao-Hung Pai traveled across China to uncover the exploitation of workers at locations as diverse as Olympic construction sites and brick kilns in the Yellow River region, the factories of the Pearl River Delta and the suicide-ridden Foxconn complex. She witnessed AIDS-afflicted families and towns;…

Book details

List price: $16.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 8/24/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 316
Size: 5.72" wide x 8.45" long x 1.13" tall
Weight: 1.122

Gregor Benton, translator, teaches in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Leeds, England, and has translated and edited numerous politically important Chinese books.