The Discovery and Return of Labor Subjectivity: Across the Divisions of Labor Studies in China

A workshop organized by Prof. Lin Chaochao (Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2020-21) and sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute

Part 1
Presenter:
7:30pm-7:45pm
Jun Kajima (Keio University, Japan)
The Impact of the Socialist Economic System on the Development of Chinese Modern Industrial Workers: A Case Study of the Textile Industry

7:45pm-8:00pm
Robert Cliver (Humboldt State University, USA)
Liberation and Democracy: Industrial Workers in the Early PRC

8:00pm-8:15pm
Matthew Lowenstein (University of Chicago, USA)
Chinese Rotating Savings and Credit Associations(ROSCAs) in Historical Perspective

8:15pm-8:30pm
Chair/Discussant: Mark Selden (Cornell University, USA)

Part 2
Presenter:
8:30pm-8:45pm
Huang Yanjie (Columbia University, USA)
From Class Reproduction to Family Rights: Negotiating Work Replacement (dingti) in Socialist Factories, 1962-1979

8:45pm-9:00pm
Koji Hirata (Cambridge University, UK)
A Great Leap City: Labor Mobilization in Anshan, 1957-62

9:00pm-9:15pm
Lin Chaochao (Fudan University, China)
Class Relations and Contentious Politics: A New Study on the Event of Shanghai Dadong Tobacco Factory in 1952

9:15pm-9:30pm
Chair/Discussant: Joel Andreas (Johns Hopkins University, USA)

Part 3
9:30pm-9:45pm
Su Yihui (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China)
Transformation of Female Salesclerks’ Multiple Identities from Maoist to Post-Maoist Period

9:45pm-10:00pm
Gavin Healy (Columbia University, USA)
Fuwuyuan on Film: Cinema, Socialist Education, and Service Labor from the Great Leap Forward to “Reform and Opening”

10:00pm-10:15pm
Jia Wenjuan (Shanghai University, China)
Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Differentiation and the Data Tagging Work in China’ s AI Industry-A case study on the data-tagging team at M company in Shanghai

10:15pm-10:30pm
Chair/Discussant: Elizabeth J. Perry (Harvard University, USA)

10:30pm-11:00pm
Open discussion