Editing Work unit (section)

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{{Short description|Danwei; a state institution of employment and political organization in China}}
A '''work''' '''unit''' or '''''danwei''''' ({{zh|t=單位|s=[[wikt:单位|单位]]|p=dān wèi}}) is the name given to a place of employment in the [[People's Republic of China]]. The term ''danwei'' remains in use today, as people still use it to refer to their workplace. Prior to [[Deng Xiaoping]]'s [[Chinese economic reform|economic reforms]], a work unit acted as the first step of a multi-tiered hierarchy linking each individual with the [[Chinese Communist Party]] infrastructure. Work units were the principal method of implementing party policy. The work unit provided lifetime employment and extensive socioeconomic welfare—"a significant feature of socialism and a historic right won through the [[Chinese Communist Revolution|Chinese Revolution]]."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wu |first=Yiching |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/881183403 |title=The cultural revolution at the margins : Chinese socialism in crisis |date=2014 |publisher=[[Harvard University Press]] |isbn=978-0-674-41985-8 |location=Cambridge, Mass. |pages=29 |oclc=881183403 |access-date=2022-10-07 |archive-date=2024-05-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240527074620/https://search.worldcat.org/title/881183403 |url-status=live }}</ref>