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Workers Protest in Modern China, Part 1

It Could Happen Here

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What's Happening in China in the 2000s?

Migrant workers are treated essentially second class citizens in the cities. They don't have guaranteed access to all kinds of social services, health care, pensions, education,. And so there is a lot of mobilization. The old state state on working class is kind of declining or subjected to market pressures that we're talking about.

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