Chang’an Town / 长安镇

Chang’an Town / 长安镇 is the [[Dongguan|东莞]] manufacturing setting emphasized in 如此打工 30 年：流水线上的面孔与时间. [[ZhanTeacher|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 [[PearlRiverDeltaManufacturingTransformation|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 [[ManufacturingMicroFragmentation|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 [[WorkerPhotographicArchive|worker photographic archive]] because ordinary streets, shops, dorms, and factory gates hold the long record of labor life.

Connections

• [[Dongguan|东莞]] - city containing the town-level case.
• [[ZhanTeacher|占老师]] and [[RuciDagong30Nian|《如此打工30年》]] - source observer and archive.
• Taylorist Factory Time / 泰勒制工厂时间, Manufacturing Job Quality, and Migrant Worker Social Insurance Legacy / 农民工社保遗留问题 - worker-life themes located in the town.
• Flexible Manufacturing / 柔性制造 and Manufacturing Micro-Fragmentation / 制造业小微化 - later manufacturing-change layer.