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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Li, Ju,
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Work in Global and Historical Perspective ; 7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (IX, 194 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

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