Abstract
“New-generation migrant workers” have received high attention from the Chinese government and society. The first document issued by the central government in 2010 was named Several Advices of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Enhancing Developing Force in Urban and Rural Areas and Further Sustain the Foundational Development of Agriculture in Villages, which first adopted the concept of “new-generation migrant workers.” On the February 1, 2010, the State Council Information Office held press conference, in which the vice chairman of the Central Finance Leading Team Tang Renjian voiced: “There are 60 % of new-generation migrant workers, or 100 million, are mainly ‘1980s’ and ‘1990s’ among 150 million migrant workers. On the one hand, migrant workers went for work in cities after they finished the school and were not familiar with agriculture, villages, lands, and farmers; on the other hand, they anticipated to come in cities and blend in and enjoy civilization of modern cities. However, we did not fully prepare to welcome them in many ways or in a broad sense (Tang Renjian 2010).”
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FOXCONN Company is a famous enterprise funded by Taiwan financial group, functioning to produce computers and communicational and electronics devices. It was founded in Taiwan in 1974 and has rapidly expanded with 600,000 employees since its factories in Shenzhen were established. It has become the biggest manufacturing company in the world with total export of 55.6 billion dollars in 2008 and took up 3.9 % shares of Chinese mainland total export and had been number 1 among the top 200 companies for 7 successive years. IT was ranked 109 out of the top 500 companies in the world according to Fortune Magazine in 2009.
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Logarithmic index for one’s annual income.
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Life stress index = ∑(social problemsi × pressurei); lower index indicates lower pressure and vice versa.
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Sense of equity index = ∑(perceived level of equityi); lower index indicated more equality and vice versa.
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Sense of conflict index standardized raw scores into t score ranging from 0 to 10. Lower index indicates more possibility of having conflicts.
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Sense of safety index = ∑(perceived level of safetyi); lower index indicates lower level of safety and vice versa.
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Li, P. (2016). Social Attitudes, Behaviors, and the Significance of Social Governance Among New-Generation Migrant Workers. In: Li, P. (eds) Great Changes and Social Governance in Contemporary China. China Insights. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45734-4_4
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