Research on the Changes of Anyuan Coal Miners during the Transformation Period

Author: Mei Fangquan
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: This book selects workers from Anyuan Mine in Jiangxi as a case study. Through ethnographic field research conducted at Gaokeng Coal Mine under Pingxiang Mining Group, combined with relevant literature, it examines the changes in the production and daily lives of miners after 1949, reflecting from one angle the transformation process of industrial workers in China and revealing the characteristics of work in the changes of daily life. The author adopts an emic and etic research perspective, conducting case studies on the work, livelihood, family and marriage, children's education, community and neighbors, leisure and entertainment, beliefs, subcultural characteristics, and mining area interest conflicts of Anyuan miners. This showcases the occupational differentiation and mobility of miners during the formation and gradual disintegration of the enterprise community, the integration of migrant workers into the worker force, and the evolution of miners' triple attributes of politics, labor, and community.