http://thechinabeat.blogspot.com/2009/08/chinas-migrant-workers-in-wake-of.html
China's migrant workers in the wake of the economic crisis (August 12, 2009, The China Beat)
Western observers often view the plight of unemployed Chinese migrant workers in stark terms. The prevailing sentiment seems to be that laid-off migrants face many of the same challenges as recently unemployed workers in America - no source of income and no savings with bills to pay and debts accrued. Such a bleak outlook only worsens in severity when the weakness of China's social safety net is taken into consideration. The combination of the two, unemployment and China's weak social welfare system, leave many believing that the PRC's jobless migrant workers have no means of subsistence. This, however, is rarely the case.
China's migrant workers in the wake of the economic crisis (August 12, 2009, The China Beat)
Western observers often view the plight of unemployed Chinese migrant workers in stark terms. The prevailing sentiment seems to be that laid-off migrants face many of the same challenges as recently unemployed workers in America - no source of income and no savings with bills to pay and debts accrued. Such a bleak outlook only worsens in severity when the weakness of China's social safety net is taken into consideration. The combination of the two, unemployment and China's weak social welfare system, leave many believing that the PRC's jobless migrant workers have no means of subsistence. This, however, is rarely the case.
