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 China’s workers and peasants : changing class identities (2012). Ed.by Beatriz Carrillo and David S. G. Goodman. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing. 176 p. (CSC China in Perspective). ISBN: 978-1781005729This book explores three decades of economic change in China and the consequent transformation of class relations and class-consciousness in villages and in the urban workplace. The contributors illustrate how the development of the urban economic environment has led to changes in the urban working class, through an exploration of the workplace experiences of rural migrant workers, and of the plight of the old working class in the state owned sector. They address questions on the extent to which migrant workers have become a new working class, are absorbed into the old working class, or simply remain as migrant workers. Changes in class relations in villages in the urban periphery - where the urbanization drive and in-migration has lead to a new local politics of class differentiation - are also raised.ContentsIntroduction: the sociopolitical challenge of economic change / Beatriz Carrillo and David S.G. GoodmanStatus groups and classes in a Chinese village/ Jonathan UngerAwakening the god of earth / Luigi TombaThe making and re-making of the working class in South China / Parry P. Leung and Alvin Y. SoChinese migrant workers / Anita Chan and Kaxton SiuIndustrial restructuring and class transformation in China / Joel AndreasWorking-class cultural spaces / Jack Linchuan Qiu and Hongzhe Wang.More about:Beatriz Carrillo-GarciaDavid S.G. GoodmanCSC China in Perspective&#160;&#160;