Meanings of rural worker in English

Rural workers' salaries, for example, are lower than those in the cities.

The movement of British rural workers into industrial towns also entailed large-scale displacement.

Apartment blocks built to house rural workers presumed to be coming, lie empty.

Wages began to rise around 2006 as the migration of rural workers to Guangdong ebbed.

Other exceptions for rural workers are also being discussed.

According to a CSAAWU statement, rural workers have historically been paid the lowest wages in the country.

Some policy to bring contentment to small holders and rural workers must be formulated and acted upon.

A key part of that change was that many of these underemployed rural workers moved into manufacturing employment.

The women discovered the plight of the struggling families who had lost their incomes as self-employed rural workers.

The average age was 49.66 years and the most reported occupation was rural workers.

Another effect of urbanization is that urban workers tend to contribute more to economic growth than rural workers do.

With jobs and wages rising so fast at home, big cities offer less of a lure to rural workers.

Years of government neglect has left many young rural workers with little option but to flee north to the United States.

Instead, rural workers' knee-jerk response after losing urban jobs is to withdraw money from their city pension accounts and return home.

Instead, central government seems happy to have reined in this expenditure and thereby reduced rural workers' bargaining power and standards of living.

Despite a new push to move 100 million rural workers to cities, they remain a haunting reminder of China's sky-high economic ambitions.