Complete 3 page APA formatted essay: To Summarize and evaluate the authors argument form an article in Global Studies: China, tenth edition.As Dolven outlines, the current scheme of local Anhui govern

Complete 3 page APA formatted essay: To Summarize and evaluate the authors argument form an article in Global Studies: China, tenth edition.

As Dolven outlines, the current scheme of local Anhui government officials is to determine which job is in demand in the cities, train their surplus rural workers in those fields, network with employment agencies and hope that the workers send their earnings to their families living in Anhui and thereby create wealth among the locals.

Indeed, Dolven relates that some Chinese urban migrants have improved their lives by working in cities. It provided them money to furnish their basic needs and allow for certain luxuries that would not have been accessible if they did not work in city. However, Anhui is just one of the many provinces vying for jobs in booming cities and all of them have a large surplus work force which implies that the competition is tough. According to Dolven, this could mean lower salaries and employers having little incentive to improve working conditions. However, migrants find that they are better off being employed than trying to farm unfertile land.

The large surplus of rural workers is already manifesting its effects on the workers thru unfair labor practices. Employees, particularly in cleaning and construction jobs, must make do with low salaries or face termination. Employees sometimes withheld wages due so as to ensure that the workers return after the holidays. As Dolven relates, some of them even threatened to commit suicide because they were not given their wages and were prevented from going to their rural homes. Yet, Chinese officials and the migrants alike support the scheme because it provided them and their family prosperity that was not available in their rural home.

For my first impression, the article seems to ask the reader whether the availability of urban jobs is indeed beneficial for the rural surplus workers but upon deeper contemplation, I came to recognize that the article was trying to question