Publication Type
Book Chapter
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
9-2015
Abstract
Wage employment has penetrated deeply into rural households’ livelihoods and has become acentral pillar in China’s rural economy. In the past three decades, three developmentspropelled the growth of wage employment: rural industrialization, rural-to-urban migration,and rise of capitalist agriculture. These developments brought in a decisive break to thetrajectory of China’s agrarian transition: the traditional model of household reproductionbased on family farming and handicraft production has now been replaced by a new one inwhich wage employment and family farming are closely bonded in a myriad of ways –through both the household-level division of labour and individual-level circulation of labourbetween the two.
Discipline
Asian Studies | Rural Sociology | Sociology
Research Areas
Sociology
Publication
Rural Wage Employment in Developing Countries: Theory, Evidence and Policy
Editor
Carlos Oya and Nicola Pontara
ISBN
9780415686495
Identifier
10.4324/9781315735085
Publisher
Routledge
City or Country
London
Citation
ZHANG, Qian Forrest. (2015). Rural households' social reproduction in China's agrarian transition: Wage employment and family farming. In Rural Wage Employment in Developing Countries: Theory, Evidence and Policy (pp. ). London: Routledge.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2143
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https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315735085