Making Cooperatives on the Salt-Tobacco Road: State Organizational Embeddedness in the Distribution and Production of Salt and Tobacco (1937–1949)

In this chapter, we focus on the influence of and changes to cooperatives along the trade of salt and tobacco. This chapter depicts and analyzes how cooperatives, which were established based on regional administrative units such as counties, towns, and villages, mobilized rural productionProduction and consumption during the Republican periodThe Republican period and gradually spread to all corners of the rural areas during the New Deal period of Wu DingchangWu Dingchang in the 1930s and 1940s.