three togethers

alternative Three Togethers

1. pluralplural onlyA policy stating that peasants should eat together, live together, and labour together.

   Acting under strict orders to practice the "three togethers" with the peasants, the work team personnel (generally one to three workers per production team) took up residence in the homes of these peasant roots.

   1970, Richard Baum, Revolution and Reaction in Rural China

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   If management personnel do not go into the shops and sections to take part in the three togethers and to learn one or more manual skills from the teachers, then they are liable to spend their whole lives in sharp struggle against the working class.

   1970, Translations on People's Republic of China, page 23

   While these studies were not themselves carried out by social scientists, professional social scientists were involved in training and advising the PKI/BTI cadres who carried out the field studies, practicing the "three togethers," the four don'ts," and the "four musts" in a remarkable forerunner of today's fashionable "bottom-up," "participatory action research" strategies (White 1993).

   2005, Ben White, “Java and Social Theory: Agrarian Debates, Past and Present”, in Hans Antlöv, Jörgen Hellman, editors, The Java that Never Was: Academic Theories and Political Practices, →ISBN, page 169

1. alternativepluralplural onlyAlternative form of three togethers.