Enduring change : the labor and social history of one third front industrial complex in China from the 1960s to the present 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 Frontmatter Acknowledgments Contents 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 Bibliography Index