Saving Oneself Through Labor: Disabled Workers and Social Welfare Production in Southwest China, 1956–65.
This article examines the organization of social welfare production work (shehui fuli shengchan gongzuo) in China's southwest Sichuan province from 1956 to 1965, with a focus on the marginalized experience of disabled workers during and after the Great Leap Forward Campaign (1958–62). Utilizing unex...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Social History Vol. 57; no. 4; pp. 601 - 619 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Summer2024
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