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...

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Published in:	Journal of Social History Vol. 57; no. 4; pp. 601 - 619
Main Author:	Zhang, Jinghong
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press / USA Summer2024
Subjects:	Sichuan Sheng (China) Public welfare Employment of people with disabilities Labor supply Industrialization Great Leap Forward, China, 1958-1961 20th century Chinese history
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