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International Workshop on Socialist Industrialization, Deskilling, and Efforts to Diminish the Gap between Mental and Manual Labor in China

Registration link: https://forms.office.com/r/PTDctG92JG

The Advanced Institute for Global Chinese Studies, Department of Cultural Studies, Center of Cultural Research and Development, Lingnan University and East Asian Studies, Johns Hopkins University are organizing the International Workshop on Socialist Industrialization, Deskilling, and Efforts to Diminish the Gap between Mental and Manual Labor in China on 27-28 May, 2023.

The workshop is inspired by this fundamental question: Does the scale, organization, and technology of modern industry and industrialized agriculture inherently entail exacerbating the separation of mental and manual labor? Scholars from different disciplines are brought together to discuss the efforts to reduce the differences between mental and manual labor in China. It will also examine changes in the ways in which mental and manual labor have been divided and combined in China since the Mao era and in subsequent decades in order to understand deskilling as a global phenomenon and the particular ways in which it has manifested itself in capitalist and socialist factories and farms, as well as the limits of twentieth-century Marxist programs to combine mental and manual labor, and the failure of Marxist promises to eliminate class differences.

The workshop panels will look at a wide range of issues and how they relate to the division of mental and manual labor:

• Industrial division of labor
• Gender and the transformation of productive and reproductive labor
• Education, science, medicine, and literature

ILP units (For Lingnan students only)
27 May 2023 (1000 – 1300): 3 units (CELD)
27 May 2023 (1430 – 1700): 2.5 units (CELD)
28 May 2023 (1000 – 1200): 2 units (IED)
28 May 2023 (1330 – 1700): 3.5 units (IED)

Registration

If you are interested in attending the workshop, please register by 23 May (Tue). A confirmation email will be sent on or before 24 May (Wed).

For inquiries, please contact the Centre for Cultural Research and Development (CCRD). Thank you.

Tel: 2616 7696

Email: [email protected]

Register HERE

ALL ARE WELCOME!