{"product_id":"the-urbanization-of-people-9780231205085","title":"The Urbanization of People","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEli Friedman reveals how cities in China have granted public goods to the privileged while condemning poor and working-class migrants to insecurity, constant mobility, and degraded educational opportunities. He provides a fine-grained account of the life experiences of people drawn into the cities as workers but excluded as full citizens.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is an enormous endeavor well accomplished. Backed up by rich fieldwork and painstaking research over many years, this book tells a poignant story of China’s prodigious urbanization, on the back of a huge migrant labor class, through their and teachers’ struggles in the arena of education. Friedman also advances a provocative and rigorous theorization of the process linked to the state-designed sociospatial hierarchy and biopolitical machinery. -- Kam Wing Chan, University of Washington\u003cbr\u003eA revealing study of migrant schools as the lever of China’s unique project of ‘just-in-time’ urbanization. Friedman shines an essential light on the human struggles among migrant children, parents, and teachers and the rigid sociospatial class and citizenship hierarchies that lock them in place even as they move to the cities. A must-read for scholars in education, labor, development, urban, and China studies. -- Ching Kwan Lee, University of California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003eIn this magnificently researched and troubling study of China's urbanization process, Friedman situates migrants—teachers, children, parents, education activists—at the center of a tale of exploitative, unequal development, in which rural migrants are simultaneously highly valued and yet treated as outsiders, easily disposed of. A phenomenal piece of work in every way. -- Ralph A. Litzinger, Duke University\u003cbr\u003eFriedman's study takes a whole-person and intergenerational approach to the question of how China's national policies and access to its capital city's public services are designed to discriminate and exclude this dynamic population that the city simultaneously relies upon for its informal labour. * China Labour Bulletin *\u003cbr\u003eThe book is expertly researched, and rich with both data and personal interviews. It will be of interest to a range of readers beyond the academic sphere and including those interested in development, the economy, and social studies in China and the region. * Asian Labour Review *\u003cbr\u003eA must-read reference for studying Chinese urban politics. * China Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003eAn excellent case study for research on immigration between nations. * Developing Economies *\u003cbr\u003eA serious and thought-provoking account of the experiences of people who have relocated to the city for work opportunities. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003eAn essential guide to both the ways in which the country’s authorities have succeeded in engineering solutions to dilemmas that have stymied the development of other states and the degree to which its leaders have sabotaged the aspirations of critical segments of their citizenry. * International Labor Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. Conceptualizing the Politics of Urbanization: The Just-in-Time Response\u003cbr\u003e2. Urban Developmentalism and the Inverted Welfare State\u003cbr\u003e3. The Migrant School: Concentrated Deprivation\u003cbr\u003e4. Rendered Surplus: Parents Navigate “Population Control via Education”\u003cbr\u003e5. Population Management’s “Hard Edge”: School Closures and Demolitions\u003cbr\u003e6. Reproductive Shock Absorbers: Teachers in Migrant Schools\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Global Extensions\u003cbr\u003eMethodological Appendix\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400366760279,"sku":"9780231205085","price":93.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231205085.jpg?v=1730470510","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-urbanization-of-people-9780231205085","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}