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This collection includes seven articles from the journal Open Times, a window into contemporary Chinese academic trends. All the articles deal with the topic of “peasants, migrant workers and informal labor,” but each has a different emphasis. It illustrates various ways that people from a countryside make use of local social resources to seek out ways to making a living. In these models, we can still see traditional social networks, various degrees of ties based on kinship and locality, and the existence of humans as social groups. It also analyzes Dagongmei’s collective actions to fight against the capital and patriarchy, workers’ collective resistance at OEM factories, and the impacts of labor migration on rural poverty and inequality.

Peasants --- Migrant labor --- Informal sector (Economics) --- Rural population --- Agricultural population --- Farm population --- Population --- Sociology, Rural --- Labor, Migrant --- Migrant workers --- Migrants (Migrant labor) --- Migratory workers --- Transient labor --- Employees --- Casual labor --- Peasantry --- Agricultural laborers --- Marks (Medieval land tenure) --- Villeinage --- Economic conditions --- S11/0200 --- S11/0830 --- S11/1080 --- S20/0260 --- China: Social sciences--General works --- China: Social sciences--Labour conditions and trade unions: since 1949 --- China: Social sciences--Migration inside China --- China: Agriculture forestry, fishery, natural disasters--Peasant economy --- Economic conditions.