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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/revolution-canteen-food-and-la
 bor-politics-industrial-china-1910s-1950s/
SUMMARY:Revolution at the Canteen: Food and Labor Politics in Industrial Ch
 ina\, 1910s-1950s
DESCRIPTION:\n	Seung-joon Lee (History\, National University of Singapore\
 ; HYI Visiting Scholar 2013-2014)\n	Chair: Philip Thai (Assistant Professo
 r of History\, Northeastern University)\n\n\n	In spite of their relatively
  small numbers in an overwhelmingly rural country\, Chinese urban workers 
 played a significant role in the Chinese revolution. At the heart of Chine
 se labor politics was a demand for worker life improvement\, particularly 
 for adequate meal service\, which was to be provided by the management at 
 a decent price\, if not free\, at the work place. In no country were hunge
 r and malnutrition politicized more than in China. Having set up a number 
 of successful labor disputes before the Communist Party cadres appeared at
  the scene\, Chinese workers themselves made significant political repercu
 ssions\, namely “rice strikes” (migui bagong)\, in the 1920s. With a s
 eries of industrial welfare programs\, the KMT Nationalists\, too\, made u
 nsparing efforts to garner the growing political potential of the labor fo
 rce. In the eyes of the KMT technocrats\, providing optimal calories to th
 e work force was a quintessential task to fulfill the Party’s cardinal c
 ause: building a strong industrial nation. Accordingly\, food provided in 
 the worker’s canteen became a focal point of labor politics.\n\n	Supplyi
 ng food to the worker's canteen should no longer be an extension of tradit
 ional charity practice that had previously blossomed in China’s imperial
  past\, but rather it should be a new revolutionary practice that mobilize
 d new forms of technical expertise ranging from nutrition science and culi
 nary innovation\, to statistical calculation and social classification\, t
 o public hygiene and racial health. The worker’s canteen\, this talk arg
 ues\, turned into the very institution that provided the workers with lear
 ning experience of nutritional knowledge\, food entitlement\, and politica
 l consciousness\, which profoundly influenced the CCP’s eventual triumph
  when the KMT regime failed in the management of the overall food supply.
  
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