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Chang’an Town / 长安镇

Chang’an Town / 长安镇 is the 东莞 manufacturing setting emphasized in 如此打工 30 年：流水线上的面孔与时间. 占老师 describes it as a town of roughly 1.2 million people where most residents are industrial workers and agriculture has largely disappeared from the visible landscape.

In the source, Chang’an Town makes 珠三角制造业变迁 concrete. Taiwanese and Hong Kong capital, export orders, worker recruitment, dormitory life, two-shift factories, automation, and 小微化 all appear as town-level experience rather than distant macro history.

Key Claims

  • Chang’an Town is used as a concentrated case of factory-centered urbanization.
  • Its industrial system creates both opportunity and constraint: wages and remittances changed lives, while factory time, social-insurance gaps, and repeated technical shifts shaped worker vulnerability.
  • The town is a key setting for worker photographic archive because ordinary streets, shops, dorms, and factory gates hold the long record of labor life.

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