ANTHRO 175Q Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Work Unit
Document Summary
1953-56: cities and countryside public ownership established negotiation struggle. Mechanisms of monopoly and the creation of organized dependency. The unified system of purchase and sale (1953-1992) and the extraction of resources from rural china for urban china development free market are more or less closed. Work unit system and rural collectives: the organized dependency of the people on the party-state. State obliqued to provide basic needs: jobs, spouse, housing, other resources etc. The unified system of purchase and sales, state against peasants. Extracting resources from rural china for urban development, strategy of heavy-industry first. Collectivization: the control of resources and socialists re-distribution system. State own everything too late to regret because you are half in. Chinese elite and people own industries modernize can be used to create propaganda. If you have a goal suffering and sacrifice. Land was collected by the state people work together. Members of collective grain procurement by the state.
