They flocked to build China’s cities. Now builders are aging with little retirement
By Emily Feng
NPR
18 Jan 2024
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/18/1220819373/china-economy-aging-construction-workers
However, many workers never had formal employment, or they worked for subcontractors who simply ignored their legal obligations to pay social insurance for employees.
“This kind of very complicated or indirect form of employment will ultimately limit the claims,” says Jenny Chan, a sociology professor who studies labor policy at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. “Many of them may not have the stable income in terms of pensions, and given the high cost of living in the cities, they will have a lot of anxiety when they are getting old, and when they are ill.”
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