The Precariat in Western China

Poverty, Risks, and Influences

Xueyang Ma

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Routledge
14 June 2024

Poverty & unemployment; Social discrimination; Social groups; Sociology: work & labour; Politics & government

Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

This book provides a comprehensive picture for understanding the experiences and dynamics of precarious workers’ in-work poverty in western China.

The research presented in this book identifies the causes and the consequences of precarious employment and in- work poverty and analyses the stakeholders’ responses to the changes in the context of employment in China’s socialist market economy. The book explains why precarious workers tend to remain outsiders to rapid socio-economic transformation and informs readers as to how people make choices, how those with different abilities adapt to the process of de-traditionalisation, and how marketisation changes people’s lifestyles, value systems, and policy designs.

Detailing empirical investigations of the experience and dynamics of workers’ precarious life, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese society, social policy, and poverty.

By: Xueyang Ma
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 590g
ISBN: 9781032748450
ISBN 10: 1032748451
Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 14 June 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Xueyang Ma is a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Political Science and Public Administration, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.