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"Many of the millions of workers streaming in from rural China to jobs at urban factories soon find themselves in new kinds of poverty and oppression. Yet, their individual experiences are far more nuanced than popular narratives might suggest. Rural Origins, City Lives probes long-held assumptions about migrant workers in China. Drawing on fieldwork in Nanjing, Roberta Zavoretti argues that many rural-born urban-dwellers are--contrary to state policy and media portrayals--heterogeneous in their employment, lifestyle, and aspirations. Working and living in the cities, rural-born workers change China's urban landscape, becoming part of an increasingly diversified and stratified society. Zavoretti finds that, over thirty years after the Open Door Reform, class formation, not residence status, is key to understanding inequality in contemporary China."--Provided by publisher.

Social classes --- Rural-urban migration --- Migrant labor --- S11/0470 --- S11/0534 --- S11/1080 --- Labor, Migrant --- Migrant workers --- Migrants (Migrant labor) --- Migratory workers --- Transient labor --- Employees --- Casual labor --- Cities and towns, Movement to --- Country-city migration --- Migration, Rural-urban --- Rural exodus --- Migration, Internal --- Rural-urban relations --- Urbanization --- Social aspects --- China: Social sciences--Cities: since 1949 --- China: Social sciences--Class studies --- China: Social sciences--Migration inside China --- China --- Social conditions --- Chine --- China. --- Conditions sociales. --- Conditions sociales --- Migrant labor.