Interesting Southern Weekly article – 找工作难，找工人也难 (‘It’s Difficult to Find Work; It’s Also Difficult to Find Employees’) as part of their special ‘Employment Survey of Migrant Workers.’ The article explains that for many migrants it has become especially difficult to find jobs in recent months, and that wages from the jobs that are available is often not enough to cover finder fees for many labor gang organizers; and that many are also unwilling to take jobs with extremely poor conditions, which at present are the only ones available.

Prior to the crisis, there was some discussion about whether migration patterns would result in dissemination of cultural norms, from urbanites to rural migrants. Articles like these point to some revision of expectations by what is generally considered China’s underclass.