The Precariat in Western China

Poverty, Risks and Influences

Xueyang Ma

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Routledge
28 November 2025

Regional studies; Poverty & unemployment; Social discrimination; Sociology; 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, 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,
ISBN: 9781032748474
ISBN 10: 1032748478
Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 28 November 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

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