Doctoral Dissertation Research: Harmony Under Construction - State Law and Rural Labor in Building Urban China

博士论文研究：构建中的和谐——中国城市建设中的国家法律与农村劳动

• 批准号: 1026720
• 负责人: Sally Merry
• 金额: $ 1.94万
• 依托单位: New York University
• 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: 2010-08-15 至 2012-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1026720&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Harmony; Under

Doctoral Dissertation Research: Harmony Under Construction - State Law and Rural Labor in Building Urban ChinaThe spectacular rise of China's modern cities is possible because of the strength and labor of a vast workforce from the countryside. This project explores how economic, legal, and social reforms in China have redefined urban labor, and how construction workers experience these changes in their daily lives. It engages questions about the relationship between law and society, and aims to discover novel ways that citizens are governed, how legal consciousness is developing, and how citizenship is transforming under a changing economic and political system. The study also complements a large body of research on gender that explores the work of migrant women, employed in large numbers in China's factories. Construction, an almost exclusively male industry, allows for a comparison of masculinity and male migrants' experience of urban work. Further, this study investigates the transnational role of American and European architecture firms in Chinese development, including the workplace relationships and modes of communication about design between foreign architects and local labor.The researcher works in conjunction with local scholars in Xian to better understand the daily lives of construction workers in China; a population that, to-date, has been largely invisible and under-represented in current research on Chinese development.

博士论文研究：建设国家法律下的和谐与中国城市建设中的农村劳动力中国的现代城市之所以能够壮观地崛起，是因为来自农村的大量劳动力的力量和劳动。这个项目探索了中国的经济、法律和社会改革如何重新定义了城市劳动力，以及建筑工人如何在日常生活中经历这些变化。它涉及法律和社会关系的问题，旨在发现治理公民的新方式，法律意识是如何发展的，以及公民身份在不断变化的经济和政治制度下是如何转变的。这项研究也是对大量性别研究的补充，这些研究探讨了大量受雇于中国所在工厂的外来务工妇女的工作。建筑业几乎完全是男性行业，这使得人们可以比较男性的男子气概和男性农民工在城市工作的经历。此外，本研究还调查了美国和欧洲建筑事务所在中国发展中的跨国角色，包括外国建筑师和当地工人之间的工作场所关系和设计沟通模式。研究人员与西安当地学者合作，以更好地了解中国建筑工人的日常生活。迄今为止，这一群体在当前的中国发展研究中基本上被忽视和代表不足。