Global Fordism in 1950s Urban China
Jake Werner
Front. Hist. China ›› 2012, Vol. 7 ›› Issue (3) : 415 -441.
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.
bureaucracy / Communism / culture / identity / industrialism / labor / nation / 1950s
Higher Education Press and Brill
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