Rural families and work overview / Jean W. Bauer, Elizabeth M. Dolan -- Theories for studying rural families and work / Jean W. Bauer, Elizabeth M. Dolan -- Rural does matter: understanding the rural context / Jean W. Bauer ... [et al.] -- Making rural employment work / Elizabeth M. Dolan, Jean...

Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- The peasant question and gender question -- Bei village : rural industries and private businesses -- Su village : collective legacy and the "new socialist countryside" -- Han village: urban dream, tied migration and male bonding -- Ning village:...

"The continuous migration of rural labor to cities has changed the fundamental characteristics of China's labor market, profoundly affected the country's investments, savings, technological progress and economic cycle fluctuation, and more importantly, the rapid development of non-agricultural...