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    The Myth of Chinese Capitalism: The Worker, the Factory, and the Future of the World
    The Myth of Chinese Capitalism: The Worker, the Factory, and the Future of the World
    The Myth of Chinese Capitalism: The Worker, the Factory, and the Future of the World
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    The Myth of Chinese Capitalism: The Worker, the Factory, and the Future of the World

    Written by Dexter Roberts

    Narrated by Joe Barrett

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    The untold story of how restrictive policies are preventing China from becoming the world's largest economy

    Dexter Roberts lived in Beijing for two decades working as a reporter on economics, business and politics for Bloomberg Businessweek. In The Myth of Chinese Capitalism, Roberts explores the reality behind today's financially-ascendant China and pulls the curtain back on how the Chinese manufacturing machine is actually powered.

    He focuses on two places: the village of Binghuacun in the province of Guizhou, one of China's poorest regions that sends the highest proportion of its youth away to become migrants; and Dongguan, China's most infamous factory town located in Guangdong, home to both the largest number of migrant workers and the country's biggest manufacturing base.

    Within these two towns and the people that move between them, Roberts focuses on the story of the Mo family, former farmers-turned-migrant-workers who are struggling to make a living in a fast-changing country that relegates one-half of its people to second-class status via household registration, land tenure policies and inequality in education and health care systems.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJul 31, 2020
    ISBN9781705235461

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      This books was great for foreshadowing and how many jobs would leave China, and instead relocate in India/SEA.