The Social Transformation and Reformation of Chinese Working Class

If we adopt the view of K.Polanyi' s so-called “ great transformation” , especially M.Burawoy' s so called “the second great transformation” to look at the market transformation in contemporary communist societies, there formed two different academic routes “ neoclassic sociology” and “ sociological marxism” .The first route focuses on elites while the second route concerns about the historical destiny of working class and underclass in the social transition.In China, due to the inequalities of institutional arrangement on the starting point of transformation, Chinese working class might be reshaped in two different ways in terms of market society.There are two theoretical models of “ labor study” in sociological theoretical tradition, namely “Marx model” and “Polanyi model” , which provide effective theoretical perspective on how “migrant workers” and “state-owned enterprise workers” form the working class in market society.Assisted by these theoretical lenses, we can reconstruct the research problem of “ migrant workers” and bring them into the framework of class formation.Finally , Burawoy' s concept of “factory regime” might offer a theoretical and methodological stance to make specific , manufacture process centered ethnographic research on working class formation in the transformation era.

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