Co-producing space and ‘worker-peasant’ labourers: urban-agricultural integration in Panzhihua during the Third Front

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A historical analysis of the Third Front period (1960s-70s) in China examines urban-agricultural integration in the industrial city of Panzhihua. Factory-operated agriculture established a labor pattern combining industrial and agricultural tasks that partially sustained workers, but the article notes this also produced tensions in worker identity and friction with external realities. The analysis is based on examining urbanization's characteristics and the interplay between individuals and their environment during this period.