From the Field to the Factory Floor: Vietnamese Government's Defense of Migrant Workers' Interests in State-Socialist Czechoslovakia
From the Field to the Factory Floor: Vietnamese Government's Defense of Migrant Workers' Interests in State-Socialist Czechoslovakia
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DOI：
10.1525/jvs.2017.12.1.10
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发表时间：
2017-12-01
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0.3
通讯作者：
Alamgir, Alena K.
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作者：
Alamgir, Alena K.
本文讨论了1990年以前越南劳工向捷克斯洛伐克的迁移。具体来说，它关注的是将越南工人分配到农业、林业和建筑业的有争议的问题，越南工人和国家都认为这是令人反感的，因为这些工作需要户外工作，不允许工人获得工厂的工作技能，而且工资很低。我表明(a)越南官员对捷克斯洛伐克官员持续施加压力，以扭转捷克斯洛伐克关于工作分配的决定，(b)他们的努力在很大程度上是成功的。因此，我得出结论，越南国家在很大程度上塑造了劳动力交换计划。
This essay discusses Vietnamese labor migration to Czechoslovakia before 1990. Specifically, it focuses on the contentious issue of assigning Vietnamese workers to jobs in agriculture, forestry, and construction, which both Vietnamese workers and the state found objectionable because they required outdoor work, did not allow workers to acquire factory job skills, and paid poorly. I show that (a) Vietnamese officials exerted sustained pressure on their Czechoslovak counterparts in order to reverse Czechoslovak decisions on job assignments, and that (b) their efforts were to a significant extent successful. Thus, I conclude, that the Vietnamese state shaped the labor exchange program to a significant degree.