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

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 mu...

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