Global Fordism in 1950s Urban China |
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Authors: | Jake Werner |
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Affiliation: | Department of History, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA |
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Abstract: | This article highlights the striking similarity of underlying social forms on both sides of the 1950s Cold War divide. Urban China in the early People’s Republic is interpreted as a variant of Fordism, a coherent social system that assumed hegemony across the globe in the postwar period. Under Fordism, bureaucratic mediation of a rationalized production process was brought together with a new regime of inclusive and homogeneous work and culture, all of which supported a vision of national unity and industrial development. Such an understanding may prove useful in working through difficulties in theorizing this period and in pursuing new directions for research. |
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Keywords: | bureaucracy Communism culture identity industrialism labor nation 1950s |
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