▤Pdf Bricks: Su Changyou’s Advanced Bricklaying Techniques

This booklet offers readers an introduction into new bricklaying techniques, tools, and management strategies. Promoted throughout China beginning in the early 1950s, these types of publications aimed to improve existing construction practices through the use of faster building practices and the more efficient organization of worksites and construction teams.

Individual model workers like Su Changyou were essential in the CCP’s efforts to inculcate new working methods into China’s construction industry. In providing readers with specific, individualized details of a worker’s successful self-improvement, the party humanized the new management strategies and massive reorganizations of labor taking place.