《如此打工30年》 / Working Like This for 30 Years

《如此打工30年》 is the book and archive project discussed in 如此打工 30 年：流水线上的面孔与时间. The source says the project was originally called “打工印记” before publication, and that its materials include [[ZhanTeacher|占老师]]’s photos, QQ posts, letters to his wife, work surveys, community observation, and personal experience.

The project’s importance is structural rather than only autobiographical. It treats the fragmented traces of [[Dongguan|东莞]] migrant-worker life as a [[WorkerPhotographicArchive|worker photographic archive]], connecting factory shifts, dorms, canteens, transport, wages, documents, aging, consumption, and small entrepreneurship into one long record of [[PearlRiverDeltaManufacturingTransformation|珠三角制造业变迁]].

Key Claims

• The book’s “fragmented” quality is part of its evidence value because worker life itself is distributed across documents, posts, routes, factories, and relationships.
• The archive is close to self-ethnography: the recorder belongs to the worker world he records.
• The project turns ordinary labor memory into a source for Fieldwork As Knowledge Method / 田野作为知识方法 and Personal Archive As History.

Connections

• [[ZhanTeacher|占老师]] - author/recorder figure in the source.
• Worker Photographic Archive / 工人摄影档案 - archival method the book makes visible.
• Taylorist Factory Time / 泰勒制工厂时间, Migrant Worker Social Insurance Legacy / 农民工社保遗留问题, and Manufacturing Micro-Fragmentation / 制造业小微化 - main labor-history themes preserved by the project.
• [[Mianji|面基]] - podcast context where the book is discussed.