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David S. makes a good point. I seriously doubt that even the highly bureaucratic PRC government has a clue as to the extent of the mass of unemployed. They were shifted back during China's down turn in it's export economy...about 50 million or so *officially*...to their rural homes inland. The reserve unemployment, the permanent migrant community of about 100 million laborers was never truly effected by the down turn as they were permanently semi-employed anyway, eking out a living in the vast slums of south China's cities. These migrants...often older men, are not allowed to be employed in the more high-tech industries that China has as a basis for part of their export economy. Younger rural women are preferred (amazing how this hearkens back to the Conditions of the Working Class in England, doesn't it?). All that gives China a "flexibility" in shadowing the human effects of it's economic contradictions. David ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
