This book examines essential issues and perspectives on rural labour, helping readers understand the changes that are currently taking place in the labour markets, especially with regard to migrants from rural to urban areas, their socio-economic conditions, factors contributing to such mobility...

This fascinating study compares and contrasts the immense internal migration movements in China and Indonesia. Over the next two decades, approximately two-thirds of the rural labour force is expected to migrate, transforming their respective societies from primarily rural to urban based

This open access book explores new research directions in social inequality and urban segregation. With the goal of fostering an ongoing dialogue between scholars in Europe and China, it brings together an impressive team of international researchers to shed light on the entwined processes of...

Setting the scene : unemployment in China / Malcolm Warner and Grace O. M. Lee -- Primitive accumulation, transition and unemployment in China / Michael Webber and Zhu Ying -- Urban unemployment in China : a background analysis (1995-2003) / Hu Angang and Sheng Xin -- Unemployment in China and...