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Record Nr.

UNISA996509967403316

Autore

Li Ju

Titolo

Enduring Change : The Labor and Social History of One Third-front Industrial Complex in China from the 1960s to the Present / / Ju Li

Pubbl/distr/stampa

München ; ; Wien : , : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

3-11-062688-8

3-11-063052-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Work in Global and Historical Perspective ; ; 7

Disciplina

306.09

Soggetti

Working class - China - History

Social history - China

Labor movement - China - History

Labor - China - History

China Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction. Lumpy State, Politicized Market, and Vicissitudinous Labor History -- 1. When the Global Meets the Local: "Preparing Against the War, Preparing Against the Famine, And All for the People" -- 2. "Building Up a New World; Buying Time Against the Imperialists": Stories About Migration and Construction in the Early Stage -- 3. The Long 1980s: "That Was the Best Time We Have Ever Had" -- 4. The "Restructuring Movement" and The Great Turbulence: 1992-2002 -- 5. Living in the "Zombie Factory": Post-neoliberalism, Erosive Deindustrialization, and Institutionalized Subaltern -- Epilogue. A Chinese New Deal or the Neoliberal Hegemony? -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Enduring Change, Ju Li explores the concrete labor and social history of one particular Third-Front industrial complex in China from the 1960s to the globalized present. By connecting the micro-historical-ethnographic research with larger structural dynamics, Li provides a vivid, in-depth, and multi-layered account of how the transformative history of the past half-century has manifested itself in this small



industrial site and how several generations of workers there have lived through these turbulences.