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=== Solinger, Dorothy. “The Chinese Work Unit and Transitions Toward Administrative Rationality.” Modern China 29, no. 2 (2003): 142–175. ===
—On cadre authority, ideological discipline, and the political economy of class labels.

Perry, Elizabeth J. Patrolling the Revolution: Worker Militias, Citizenship, and the Modern Chinese State. Rowman & Littlefield, 2007.
—Useful for early 1950s worker recruitment, proletarian ideology, and political mobilization.

Whyte, Martin King. The Status of Women in Pre-Liberation and Contemporary China. Stanford University Press, 1978.
—Classic work on gender norms and social mobility in class-based society.

Unger, Jonathan. “Class, Culture, and the Urbanization of Rural China.” Modern China 17 (1991).
—Powerful description of class status as a lived identity.

Walder, Andrew G. Communist Neo-Traditionalism: Work and Authority in Chinese Industry. University of California Press, 1986.
—Definitive study on factory discipline, cadre authority, and loyalty mechanisms.

Perry, Elizabeth J. & Li, Xun (eds.). Proletarian Power: Shanghai in the Cultural Revolution. Westview Press, 1997.
—Rich analysis of working-class political capital and ideological purity.

Zhou Xun (周逊). The People’s Health: Health Intervention and Delivery in Mao’s China, 1949–1983. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020.
—Excellent for understanding political control applied to human bodies and emotions.