Multiple job holding in rural villages and the Chinese road to development

Journal of Peasant Studies

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 513-530

  van der Ploeg, Jan Douwe ^a,b   Jingzhong, Ye ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Intensification; Multiple job holding; Peasants; Town countryside relations

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; LABOR MARKET; PEASANT AGRICULTURE; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; RURAL ECONOMY; RURAL PLANNING; RURAL POLICY; STRATEGIC APPROACH; VILLAGE;

ARTICLE; CHINA; COMMUNITY CARE; CULTURAL FACTOR; ECONOMICS; EMPLOYMENT; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH; HISTORY; LEGAL ASPECT; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL STATUS;

CHINA; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; ECONOMICS; EMPLOYMENT; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; POLITICAL SYSTEMS; RURAL HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL CONDITIONS;

CHINA; HEBEI;

EID: 77954499383     PISSN: 03066150     EISSN: 17439361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2010.494373     Document Type: Article

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