The Urbanization of People: The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City [first edition]

Paperback in Fine condition, large 8vo, pages: xiv,337. Color illustrated stiff wrappers, color illustrations, appendices, bibliography, index. First printing. Like new. Bookseller accession no.: 22A03. From a wrapper blurb, "A revealing study of migrant schools as the lever of China's unique project of "just-in-time" urbanization. Friedman shines an essential light on the human struggles among migrant children parents, and teachers and the rigid sociospatial class and citizenship hierarchies that lock them in place even as the move to the cities."