Kuruvilla, Lee, and Gallagher, eds., From Iron Rice Bowl to Informalization: Markets, Workers, and the State in a Changing China Cornell U. Press, 2011
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An astonishing number of people in China are moving from peasantry to what's called precarity. They're moving from the countryside into cities to take precarious jobs in the urban informal economy. Sarah Swider has lived and worked alongside migrant construction workers; she describes employment arrangements, exploitation, and prospects for Chinese migrant worker solidarity.

