Enduring Change

The Labor and Social History of One Third-front Industrial Complex in China from the 1960s to the Present

Ju Li

• Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
• Year: 2019
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110630527
• Subtopic: Asian History
• Index: History

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

• 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