The Study On Jiangnan Slum Dwellers In Modern Time

With the process of modern industrialization, social differentiation get aggravated further .After a large number of bankruptcy because of the economic livelihood of rural migrants into the city, they are thrown into the bottom of society and become slum dwellers. As the representative of the underlying population in modern urban society, slum dwellers is a huge number of social groups and an important part of modern urban population.Slum dwellers gather in an area, live in remote corners of the city and are a special social group whose internal structure has a relatively closed nature. It showed a serious imbalance in gender composition. The age composition showed "younger" state, young adults constitutes the main part of slum dwellers. Family structure tends to small-sized in general. The level of education is low extremely. Social occupations are also being marginalized, to dirty, dangerous, tired, poor menial physical work-based. All of these are decisions that they had to place in the bottom of society, living a very hard life.Due to professional relationship, the income of the slum dwellers is very low; the living conditions proved that they were the typical of extreme poverty. The residents of the slum dwellers were engaged in dirty, bitter, and tired of the "humble" physical work, which doomed they would make a living hardly and bitterly, the little income they got only for living. Their clothing, food, shelter, and other conditions is extremely simple, and the entertainment is also simple and boring, which made the slum dwellers the severely marginalized groups.With the continuous spread of the slum dwellers, it also brought many social problems, such as fire, disease, health, crime and so on. The community of the society use their own means, or against, or relief, to make attempts to resolve the slum dwellers problem. The government from the initial positive prohibition to gradually take some relief measures, and the social forces for the improvement of the alum dwellers'living, which although improved the living conditions of the slum dwellers in some extent, due to various reasons, with little success, the slum dwellers problem still not been fundamentally solved.As an important constituent part of the urban population in Jiangnan in modern time, we can not ignore this special group of the slum dwellers. The study on this group had very important significance, their vibrant and vivid life scenes and the arduous process of urban experience and life, not only show us the new picture of the history of the bottom of the social in modern time, but also to solve today's "Urban Villages" problem during the process of urbanization, which provided historical reference.