Precarity, Cognitive (Non-)Resistance and the Conservative Working Class in China
Precarity, Cognitive (Non-)Resistance and the Conservative Working Class in China
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中国的不稳定、认知（非）抵抗和保守的工人阶级
DOI：
10.1080/00472336.2019.1576215
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发表时间：
2019
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Lin Jake
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作者：
Lin Jake
工人的抵抗对于理解工人阶级如何应对后社会主义时代的中国日益增长的早产症至关重要。《劳工研究》的文献认为，不平等和不稳定的资本流动增加了工人的早产率，并导致了更强的劳工抵抗，如罢工。然而，作为抵抗的一个组成部分的工人的认知却很少被研究。本文从社会信任、阶级认同、对政策的理解和阶级团结等方面考察了来自不同一线城市的中国劳动者的认知阻力。尽管资本流动和早熟导致了更多的劳工骚乱，但这并不一定会导致更强的认知阻力。虽然在资本优惠度不断变化的更发达的特大城市，不平等和早熟现象更严重，但与来自二三线城市的员工相比，在特大城市工作的人表现出更保守的认知阻力。这项对工人认知阻力的研究为中国工人运动的未来提供了洞察。它认为，工人阶级目前在认知上的不抵抗表明，即使国家压迫的高墙上出现了一扇机会之窗，工人们在认知上也没有准备好联合起来形成一场连贯的社会运动，带来变革性的变化。
Workers’ resistance is crucial to understanding how the working class respond to the growing labour precarity in post-socialist China. The labour studies literature posits that inequality and volatile capital movements increase workers’ precarity and lead to stronger labour resistance, such as strikes. However, workers’ cognition as an integral part of resistance has been rarely studied. This article examines cognitive resistance by Chinese workers from different tier cities by looking at their social trust, class identity, understanding of policies and class solidarity. Despite capital movements and precarity causing more labour unrest, it does not necessarily lead to a stronger cognitive resistance. While inequality and precarity are greater in the more developed megacities with a shifting capital favourability, workers in megacities display a more conservative cognitive resistance than those from the lower-tier cities. This study of workers’ cognitive resistance provides insight into the future of the Chinese labour movement. It argues that the working class’s current cognitive non-resistance suggests that even if a window of opportunity were to appear in the wall of state oppression, workers are not cognitively prepared to coalesce into a coherent social movement that would bring about transformative changes.