Gifts of Labour
Gifts of Labour
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劳动礼物
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2005
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Mao Mollona
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Mao Mollona
这篇文章关注的是位于英国谢菲尔德城市贫困地区Endcliffe的一家小工具厂的工人如何概念化、体验和谈论他们的劳动价值，以及更广泛的政治经济环境的变化如何影响他们的劳动价值观念。本文将马克思主义对资本主义劳动过程的分析与人类学对礼物和商品交换意识形态的关注结合起来，探讨了劳动商品化过程的文化特殊性。它认为，国家新自由主义政策和谢菲尔德当地钢铁公司广泛的分包合同的综合作用，已经把小工厂变成了经济和福利机构的混合体，在同一个车间里，有混合的商品和非商品劳动力。在挑战最近关于异化的许多人类学文献时，文章声称异化是工人将作为免费礼物的劳动意识形态与作为纯粹功利活动的劳动意识形态融合的结果，而不是它们的尖锐分离。
The article focuses on how the workers of a small tool factory located in Endcliffe - an area of urban deprivation in Sheffield, UK - conceptualize, experience, and talk about the value of their labour and how changes in the wider politico-economic environment affect their notion of labour value. The article combines a Marxist analysis of the capitalist labour process with an anthropological focus on the ideology of gift and commodity exchange, and explores the cultural specificity of processes of labour commodification. It argues that the combined effect of state neoliberal policies and extensive subcontracting by local steel corporations in Sheffield have turned small factories into hybrids between economic and welfare institutions, with mixed commodified and non-commodified labour on the same shopfloor. In challenging much of the recent anthropological literature on alienation, the article claims that alienation is the consequence of the workers’ (con)fusion of the ideology of labour as a free gift and the ideology of labour as a purely utilitarian activity, rather than of their sharp separation.