w88 casino News(Reporter Song Qinyu)11month20日18:30,In erudition606, Peking University-Professor Pan Yi, deputy director of the Social Work Center of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and director of the Department of Applied Social Sciences of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, gave a speech on the topic of "China's Social Transformation and the Rise of New Workers".

What are migrant workers? Pan Yi believes that in the development process of Chinese society, migrant workers are divided into the first generation and the second generation. The first generation of migrant workers - born in the 1960s and 1970s, began to work in the newly industrialized areas of South China from the countryside in the 1980s and 1990s. They work every day14To15hours, living conditions are poor, and there is no legal protection.

The second generation of migrant workers was born and grew up in the era of reform and opening up, and entered the labor market at the turn of the century. Their working and living conditions have improved compared to the first generation of migrant workers, but they have experienced significant urban-rural divisions, income inequality, and profound social exclusion. Regarding the suicide case of Foxconn workers, Foxconn officials attributed it to the workers' personal emotional problems. During the summer vacation, Pan Yi took 40 teachers and students to conduct in-depth research into the factory to obtain the most authentic information from the bottom workers.17Tian Yu, a female worker aged 9101_9194|, was Foxconn’s “third jumper”. She was unable to receive her salary because she did not have a salary card. After complaining many times to no avail, she chose to commit suicide. During the conversation with Tian Yu, Pan Yi discovered that Foxconn's production management system is strict and workers are uniformly managed, losing their due dignity.

"The suicide of Foxconn workers is a kind of homicide." Pan Yi emphasized that this kind of suicide is caused to some extent by external structural factors and Foxconn's unreasonable production management model. Therefore, Foxconn’s strike is reasonable and a right for workers to protect themselves.

While China has become the “world’s factory”, it has also created a new generation of migrant workers in China. The second generation of migrant workers has begun to resist the global production strategy of "race to the bottom", resist the rootless life experience they have to suffer in the city, and resist the quasi-social status of "migrant workers" imposed on them. In the absence of sound laws, the new generation of working class can only rely on their own strength to protect themselves.

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