"Behind China's growing economic and political power is a vast underworld of marginalized social groups. In this powerful and timely book, Wanning Sun focuses on the country's hundreds of millions of rural migrant workers, who embody China's most intractable problems of inequali…
An eye-opening and previously untold story, Factory Girls is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China. China has 130 million migrant workers'the largest migration in human history. In Factory Girls, Leslie T. Chang, a former correspondent…
Going out -- The city -- To die poor is a sin -- The talent market -- Factory girls -- The stele with no name -- Square and round -- Eight-minute date -- Assembly-line English -- The village -- The historian in my family -- The South China mall -- Love and money -- The tomb of t…
An eye-opening and previously untold story, Factory Girls is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China. China has 130 million migrant workers'the largest migration in human history. In Factory Girls, Leslie T. Chang, a former correspondent…
"An eye-opening and previously untold story, Factory Girls is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China." "China has 130 million migrant workers - the largest migration in human history. In Factory Girls, Leslie T. Chang, a former correspo…
"The Covid-19 pandemic resulted in a mass exodus of India's migrant workers from the cities back to the villages. This book explores the social conditions and concerns around health, labour, migration, and gender that were thrown up as a result of this forced migration. The book…
A cardboard suitcase and a backpack: Northeastern migrations to Sao Paulo in the 1950s -- Land of the Northeasterners: migration, urbanization, and factory work in Sao Miguel Paulista -- Worker community and everyday life: "becoming Northeastern" in Sao Paulo -- The right to pra…
"In this new work on the geography of poverty, David Rain dispels the notion that relentless human mobility is a byproduct of western technological advances like superhighways and airports. Every year, after the rainy season ends in the arid West African Sahel, hundreds of thous…
"In this new work on the geography of poverty, David Rain dispels the notion that relentless human mobility is a byproduct of western technological advances like superhighways and airports. Every year, after the rainy season ends in the arid West African Sahel, hundreds of thous…
