The “Making Out” Game outside the Factory: A case study of “making out” production in Pearl River Delta area

中国沿海地区代工制造产业中的赶货现象挑战了传统的企业组织理论,受制于订单和劳动力市场的高度不稳定,珠三角地区正在兴起的厂内赶货和租户赶货的外包模式与传统的家庭代工模式迥异。赶货代工既不是家庭收入的补充或临时性劳动,也不是产业的后备军,赶工游戏是农民工的自我剥削,工人向上流动的可能性非常低。赶货工与雇主双方在充分竞争的劳动力市场上找到自己的平衡点,这种劳资双方“自愿”达成的合作弱化了工人基于工作现场的反抗,也游离于国家的立法保护体系之外。

The “making out” phenomenon occurring in the original equipment manufacturer ( OEM) industries in the coastal areas has challenged the traditional enterprise organization theory． Constrained by the high instability of orders and the labor market，the emerging out-sourcing patterns of“making out”production within factories or by tenants in the Pearl River Delta area differ remarkably from the traditional family OEM model． Rushing in orders is neither a supplementary way for household income ( or temporary household labor) ，nor a way of creating an industrial reserve 245 army． The game of“making out”is the self-exploitation of the immigrant workers， which generates little possibility of upward mobility for the workers． These workers and the employers arrive at an equilibrium point in a fully competitive labor market． The “voluntary” cooperation between the two side has weakened the workers' resistance based on the work site，and it is not protected by the current legal system．

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