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Scattered Sand : The Story of China's Rural Migrants by Benton, Gregor; Pai, Hsiao-Hung is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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Each year, 200 million workers from China’s vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human migration in history. This indispensable army of labour accounts for half of China’s GDP, but is an unorganized workforce—‘scattered sand’, in Chinese parlance—and the most marginalized and impoverished group of workers in the country.<br><br>For two years, the award-winning journalist Hsiao-Hung Pai travelled across China, visiting labourers on Olympic c
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Benton, Gregor; Pai, Hsiao-Hung
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781844678860
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Sociology, History, Management
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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