Foreign Labor Regimes and Local Workplace Cultures

外国劳工制度和当地工作场所文化

• 批准号: 1022570
• 负责人: Ching Kwan Lee
• 金额: $ 11.4万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1022570&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Foreign; Labor; Regimes; Local; Workplace

SES- 1022570 Ching Kwan LeeUniversity of California-Los AngelesThe study examines "the labor question" of Chinese investments in Zambia. The research addresses the questions of how Chinese firms operate overseas, how the practices and ideologies of Chinese managers interact with the politics and cultures of African workers, and how these Chinese labor regimes differ from those in non-Chinese foreign companies in Zambia. The study will help to elucidate the particularity of "Chinese capitalism" as it expands overseas and becomes a global economic force. NSF funding will be used to continue a study the investigator started two years ago in Zambia, the site for the first of several Chinese-run Special Economic Zones in Africa. Preliminary fieldwork has found that labor--in the forms of strikes, protests, public discourses on Chinese labor practices--is the primary challenge to the Chinese mode of accumulation abroad. Using ethnographic in-depth interviews, surveys and observation, this research is designed to accomplish a double comparison. First, it plans to identify what is "Chinese" about Chinese companies' labor practices by comparing Chinese companies with non-Chinese counterparts. Second, this project compares two industries central to Zambia's economy: copper mining and construction. Whereas mining involves place-bound, long-term investment employing an organized labor force, construction is a short-term, project-based business engaging mostly casual and non-unionized workers. Comparing these two industries with contrasting conditions of production will illustrate the divergent interests, capacity and constraints of Chinese "capital", too often mistaken as a singular and monolithic force. Broader Impacts This research contributes to the global conversation on a "Chinese scramble for Africa" and China's rise as an economic force. Empirical data on the actual practices of Chinese investors and their diverse impacts can inform development policies. Also, the inter-continental nature of this study can serve as a new model for bridging area studies that are traditionally unconnected.

SES- 1022570 Ching Kwan Lee加州大学洛杉矶分校该研究调查了中国在赞比亚投资的“劳工问题”。该研究解决了中国企业如何在海外运营，中国管理人员的做法和意识形态如何与非洲工人的政治和文化互动，以及这些中国劳工制度与赞比亚的非中国外国公司有何不同等问题。 这一研究将有助于阐明“中国资本主义”在海外扩张并成为全球经济力量时的特殊性。美国国家科学基金会的资金将用于继续两年前在赞比亚开始的一项研究，赞比亚是中国在非洲建立的几个经济特区中的第一个。初步的田野调查发现，劳动--以罢工、抗议、公开讨论中国劳动实践的形式--是对中国海外积累模式的主要挑战。本研究采用民族志深度访谈、调查和观察的方法，旨在完成一个双重比较。首先，它计划通过比较中国企业和非中国企业，来确定中国企业的劳动实践中哪些是“中国的”。第二，本项目比较了赞比亚经济的两个核心产业：铜矿开采和建筑。采矿业涉及当地的长期投资，雇用有组织的劳动力，而建筑业是一种短期的、基于项目的业务，主要雇用临时工和非工会工人。将这两个行业与对比的生产条件进行比较，将说明中国“资本”的不同利益、能力和限制，而中国“资本”往往被误认为是一种单一和单一的力量。更广泛的影响这项研究有助于全球对话“中国争夺非洲”和中国作为一个经济力量的崛起。关于中国投资者实际做法及其各种影响的经验数据可以为发展政策提供参考。此外，这项研究的洲际性质可以作为一个新的模式，连接传统上不相连的地区研究。