University of Washington geographer Kam Wing Chan is in China this week, explaining how that country can dismantle its 55-year-old system that limits rural laborers from moving to and settling in cities and qualifying for basic social benefits. It's an idea that he says makes economic and moral sense. China's "hukou" household registration system was established in 1958 as a way of maintaining cheap farm labor to grow food for urban dwellers...
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