ABSTRACT
Market-oriented economic development has spawned the rise of new occupations: private entrepreneurs, managers of foreign-invested enterprises and multinational corporations, lawyers, financiers, consultants, think tank analysts. It has spurred upward and horizontal mobility-perhaps 80 million villagers now work in urban locales. Established status hierarchies are being upset. New inequalities have arisen and with them social tensions, frustrations, and resentments of the formerly privileged toward the newly rich. Workers in the state sector, whose lifetime job security is ending, are a case in point.
