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Backyard furnace in China during the disastrous 'Great Leap Forward.' The government encouraged peasants to...

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Backyard furnace in China during the disastrous 'Great Leap Forward.' The government encouraged peasants to make small quantities of steel in primitive backyard blast furnace. Over one million smelters were set up in the 'battle for steel'. The results were chaotic and uneconomic, and took farmers away from the fields. March 1962
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Backyard furnace in China during the disastrous 'Great Leap Forward.' The government encouraged peasants to make small quantities of steel in primitive backyard blast furnace. Over one million smelters were set up in the 'battle for steel'. The results were chaotic and uneconomic, and took farmers away from the fields. March 1962

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worker / 20th century / steel / rural / forge / historical / iron / primitive / metallurgy / occupational portraits / famines / flames / chinese / history / Photograph / Photography / Mzphoto

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