Original
Chinese State-Owned Enterprise Workers at the Margins: Evidence from a Sichuan Case Study
Abstract
This article examines workers’ changes in a Sichuan state-owned enterprise established during Third Front initiative. Taking qualitative research methods based on in-depth interviews and fieldwork, it demonstrates how SOE reforms reshaped workers’ capital resource and social status, transforming the formerly secure working class into wage-dependent labour through workers’ narratives on their work and life histories. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of capital and Marxist class analysis, the study tracks workers’ capital losses through welfare shrinkage, declining skill value, and work-unit network disintegration, explaining how these shifts represent changed labour relations, as institutional protection gave way to market control. The case points out widening divisions among workers, indicating a fragmented working class and a redefined class structure in post-reform China.
中文
处于边缘的中国国有企业工人：来自四川案例研究的证据
摘要
本文考察了在三线建设时期建立的一家四川国有企业中工人的变迁。基于深度访谈和田野调查的质性研究方法，并通过工人对其工作与生活史的叙述，本文展示了国企改革如何重塑了工人的资本资源与社会地位，将原本享有保障的工人阶级转变为依赖工资的劳动力。借鉴皮埃尔·布迪厄的资本概念与马克思主义阶级分析，本研究追踪了工人通过福利缩减、技能价值下降和单位网络解体而遭受的资本损失，解释了这些变化如何代表劳动关系的改变，即制度性保护让位于市场控制。该案例指出了工人之间不断扩大的分化，表明改革后中国出现了碎片化的工人阶级和重新定义的阶级结构。
关键词
国有企业改革、三线建设、工人阶级、布迪厄资本理论、马克思主义阶级分析、劳动关系、社会分化、四川案例