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192.168.6.56/handle/123456789/20955| Title: | Gender, Work, and Family in a Chinese Economic Zone Laboring in Paradise |
| Authors: | Riley, Nancy E. |
| Keywords: | Laboring in Paradise |
| Issue Date: | 2013 |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| Description: | uiyang was in her early 30s when I fi r st met her; over the course of several hours of interviews, I came to see her as the success story that so many rural migrant women aspire to. She had grown up in a poor rural family, one of four children. Her family was classi fi ed as “peasant,” with a rural hukou. She managed to graduate from middle school, at the age of 16, but was unable to pursue further education because of her family’s straitened circumstances and the lack of schooling in her rural region. Huiyang found small jobs for several years after graduating, working fi r st in agricultural jobs, and then fi n ding ways to earn small amounts selling goods in a local marke |
| URI: | http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/20955 |
| ISBN: | 978-94-007-5524-6 |
| Appears in Collections: | Gender |
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