Yeah, but it's still happening and you have dirt poor farmers in the hinterlands --they are hidden from view (not talked about much) and cityfolk are willfully blind to their very existence.
All I'm saying is were seeing the same movement from farms to terrible factory work that e saw in the West during the ind revolution as we're seeing today in China because despite the awful conditions these conditions are better than working on a farm. We're talking about the desperation that drives these young adults from their farms to work in factories under poor conditions.