This book presents fifty years in the life of Nanfang Steel (NS), an industrial complex in China’s inland province of Sichuan. It was built during the Third Front Construction (TFC), when, following the rupture with the Soviet Union in 1960, Mao mobilized people in an extreme effort to achieve self-reliance despite huge technological backwardness and scarce crucial resources. In its peak years, NS employed around 30,000 workers, had apartment blocks, high-quality schools, shops, restaurants, and a glorious “ten mile steel-city avenue.”
Enduring Change: The Labor and Social History of One Third-Front Industrial Complex in China from the 1960s to the Present
Valeria Zanier
Primo
Writing – Original Draft Preparation
2022
Abstract
This book presents fifty years in the life of Nanfang Steel (NS), an industrial complex in China’s inland province of Sichuan. It was built during the Third Front Construction (TFC), when, following the rupture with the Soviet Union in 1960, Mao mobilized people in an extreme effort to achieve self-reliance despite huge technological backwardness and scarce crucial resources. In its peak years, NS employed around 30,000 workers, had apartment blocks, high-quality schools, shops, restaurants, and a glorious “ten mile steel-city avenue.”File in questo prodotto:
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