Author: Solinger, Dorothy J.
Title: Contesting Citizenship in Urban China : Peasant Migrants, the State, and the Logic of the Market
Description: Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, (1999). orig.boards. 23x15cm, xix,444 pp. Textual photo illustrations.. Minor rubbing. Some light page-edge soil. VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction: Citizenship, Markets, & the State: Appendix: What Is the Floating Population? Structure: State Policies: Turning Peasants into Subjects; Urban Bureaucracies: Migrants & Institutional Change; The Urban Rationing regime: Prejudice & Public Goods; Agency: The Floating Population Leaves Its Rural Origins; Peasants Enter Urban Labor Markets; Coping Outside It & Alternate Citizenship; Conclusion: Floating to Where? Citizenship & the Logic of the Market in a Time of Systemic Transition.

Keywords: Chinese Labour Sociology, Political Politics, Communist China, Labor Migration, Peasant Peasantry, Economic History, Economics Economy, Social Sociology, Rural-Urban Poverty