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Socialist emulation in China: worker heroes yesterday and today
Citation
Funari, R and Mees, B, Socialist emulation in China: worker heroes yesterday and today, Labor History, 54, (3) pp. 240-255. ISSN 0023-656X (2013) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2013 Taylor & Francis
DOI: doi:10.1080/0023656X.2013.804269
Abstract
Chinese labour heroes represent an idiosyncratic expression of a broader twentieth-century phenomenon of promoting worker emulation through the hailing of model labourers. Taken from a comparative perspective, the Chinese practice can be seen not only as modelled on an earlier Soviet development, but also a broader need felt in totalitarian regimes in the 1930s and 1940s that workers needed to be ‘remoralised’ through the establishment of cults of workers and work. Recently revived in the People's Republic of China in the form of patriotic movies and television shows, the main historical development of the Chinese articulation of this broader historical labour phenomenon is assessed in light of recent studies of Soviet and National Socialist attempts to heroise labour.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | labour heroes, China |
Research Division: | Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services |
Research Group: | Human resources and industrial relations |
Research Field: | Business and labour history |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in commerce, management, tourism and services |
UTAS Author: | Mees, B (Dr Bernard Mees) |
ID Code: | 128993 |
Year Published: | 2013 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 2 |
Deposited By: | TSBE |
Deposited On: | 2018-10-31 |
Last Modified: | 2018-12-17 |
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