ON March 6,2009,the Common School of Peking University,one of China's most prestigious institutes of higher education,commenced its fourth session.Over the course of six months 102 members of the university's subsidia...
Female migrant workers are paid considerably less than their male counterparts, according to the recent report Gender Differences in the Migrant Workers' Market. Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Social Scienc...
Over the past 20 years,210 million Chinese farmers and rural dwellers have abandoned the countryside in search of a better life in China’s burgeon- ing cities.By comparison,the combined labor force of the United States
ALTHOUGH he has become the head of the Home of Migrant Workers,Sun Heng still calls himself an"ordinary migrant worker."The Home of Migrant Workers Cultural Develop- ment Center,the Migrant Workers Cul- tural Museum (...
IT'S 7pm,and knocking-off time for laborers on a building site in southwest Beijing.Clearly exhausted,they chat companionably on the road home.Two of them,Hu Bing and Yan Chenghai,are from the same town in Hebei Provi...
LURED by better living and working condetions,huge numbers of Chinese farmers leave their rural homes for the city.Their education having generally ended at junior middle school,they have little choic but to take up p...
ACCORDING to official statistics,there are now 130 million(equivalent to half the American population)migrant workers in Chinese cities.This means that China has more migrant than urban workers,and that they constitut...