[lbo-talk] Patrick Bond responds on Chinese labor market

[Patrick Bond]

Sorry, should have been clearer. That stat was for South Africa ("our 
situation"), and it's roughly 10% of the employed population. If anyone 
wants I can send over a  .ppt that gives all the employment data here, 
including informal jobs, or my book Elite Transition (UKZN and Pluto 
Press) which does more on the context of the sort of crony neoliberalism 
that wiped out a million formal sector jobs.

Chris Doss wrote:
> One million people out of a population of well over a
> billion is a pretty small percentage...
>
> Question: do Chinese peasants live off their produce,
> sell it in exchange for money for which they buy stuff
> to live, or both? Or neither -- are they on state
> farms?
>
> --- Patrick Bond <pbond at mail.ngo.za> wrote:
>  The last state survey
>   
>> I've seen of our 
>> situation has one million people earning below
>> US$30/month in this kind 
>> of work, and yet the state here calls 'begging' and
>> various types of 
>> survival activity (even catching fish and hunting
>> wild animals) as 
>> 'employment'. \
>>     
>
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