Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-191) and index.

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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.

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?

In English.

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