Chinese Journal of Sociology ›› 2017, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (5): 105-138.

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On the Rise of the Revolutionary Work Ethic:By Focusing on the “Zhao Zhankui Campaign” in the Shaanxi Gansu Ningxia Border Region

YOU Zhenglin   

  1. School of Sociology, China University of Political Science and Law
  • Online:2017-09-20 Published:2017-09-20
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    This study is supported by the Scientific Research Project of China University of Political Science and Law(16ZFG84002).

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Abstract:

After the establishment of the Government of the Shaanxi Gansu Ningxia Border Region in 1937, the public factories were set up gradually in the border region. During the period of 1940 to 1945, in order to enhance workers' enthusiasm for work and maintain a good work order in public factories, the Central Committee of CPC and other relevant policy-makers creatively carried out a series of interrelated transformations on the labor process of the public factories, such as correcting the trade union's "left" tendency and redefining its basic tasks, launching the "Zhao Zhankui Campaign" named after the model worker Zhao Zhankui, transforming the interactional relations between the Party organization, the administration and the trade union within the public factories, and so on. With the implementation of these transformations, a new work ethic, which was mainly used to regulate the labor attitude of workers and the interactional relations between the Party organizations, the administration and the trade union within the public factories, was gradually built up. Since the logical starting point for the construction of this new work ethic was to link workers' work with the revolutionary activities led by the CPC, to emphasize that the public factories were the revolutionary public property which the working class itself also had a share of it, and the workers were working for the revolution, therefore, this article named this new work ethic "revolutionary work ethic". By focusing on the "Zhao Zhankui Campaign" in the Shaanxi Gansu Ningxia Border Region, this paper systematically explores how the revolutionary work ethic had been built up and raised. On this basis, this paper also discusses two related issues:one is the practical role of this revolutionary work ethic, and the other is its continuity and evolution.