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Through an immersive introduction and chapter themes such as urban belief, blood and water, and the iron city, it frames class conflict as a lived experience rather than abstract theory. The book situates local realities within international debates, offering a radical, politically engaged voice to urgent questions of inequality.","[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nHINTERLAND  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nFIELD NOTES  \nSERIES EDITOR: Paul Mattick  \nA series of books providing in-depth analyses of today’s global turmoil as it unfolds. Each book focuses on an important feature of our present-day economic, political and cultural condition, addressing local and international issues. ‘Field Notes’ examines the many dimensions of today’s social predicament and provides a radical, politically and critically engaged voice to global debates.  \nPublished in association with the Brooklyn Rail  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nHINTERLAND  \nAmerica’s New Landscape of Class and Conflict  \nPHIL A. NEEL  \nREAKTION BOOKS  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nPublished by Reaktion Books Ltd Unit 32, Waterside  \n44–48 Wharf Road London N 1 7UX, UK  \n[www.reaktionbooks.co.uk](www.reaktionbooks.co.uk)  \nFirst published 2018  \nCopyright © Phil A. Neel 2018 All rights reserved  \nNo part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers  \nPrinted and bound in Great Britain by TJ International, Padstow, Cornwall A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library eISBN: 9781780239453  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nContents  \nIntroduction: The Cult of the City  \none  Oaths of Blood two  Silver and Ash three The Iron City four  Oaths of Water  \nReferences  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nIntroduction: The Cult of the City  \nThe train hurled through the hot, mist-damp blackness of southern China. If you stood in the barren cavities between cars, you could feel the air as it was sucked into the compartment via thin windows slit in the metal like narrow wounds. The stink of factories and endless, fertilizer-soaked fields pushed against the claustrophobic smell of food and bodies. Nothing was visible outside save for the few platforms we stopped at, small oases of yellow-lit concrete lodged within a jungle of limestone cliffs, cash crops and half-abandoned industrial sites all sinking in the hot darkness, a dull orange glow on the horizon like fires burning somewhere behind the karst plateaus. At each platform, more people entered, mostly migrant workers hauling their belongings on their backs in gigantic plastic-fiber mingong bags, all the same pastel plaid. For the first eight hours, no one seemed to disembark.  \nLike me, none of the migrants had bought seats. Chinese trains have an elaborate hierarchy of ticket types, the lowest and cheapest being these standing tickets, which entitle you to entry but nothing else. Most people with these tickets stand or sit in the aisles and in the spaces between cars. If you’re lucky, the other tickets were underbooked and you get a seat without the extra cost. Otherwise you can negotiate for half a seat shared with a stranger or simply squat in the mire of trash and sleeping bodies strewn down the aisle. Some people had come prepared with small, fold-out stools. Others sipped instant noodles as they slumped against their plaid plastic bags filled with whatever necessities they’d used to build makeshift lives in the dormitories and run-down rentals of some boomtown.  \nThis was in 2012, during the tail end of the Chinese commodity bubble driven by the post-crisis stimulus package, much of which was funneled into large-scale infrastructure projects attempting to lay the groundwork for further development in the interior. As growth stagnated in the coastal capitals, boomtowns proliferated in lesser-known secondary and tertiary  \ncities in the poorer provinces. But as the stimulus hemorrhaged and these interior hubs failed to grow at the same rate as their coastal forebears, the construction projects were finished with only a small measure of factory jobs left in their wake. 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