Line Pipan
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July 13, the Guangdong provincial government issued "on the strengthening of humane care to improve the employment environment for guidance," requirements "establish a people-centered development philosophy, effectively strengthen enterprise workers humanistic care, the development of harmonious labor relations", requiring companies to "improve production en vironment, improve the production process. "
At this point before entering the labor problem is not the vision of Guangdong province level. Back in the province a month ago to speed up transformation of economic development teleconference meeting, the CPC Central Committee, Party Secretary Wang Yang said in his speech: "time out, super strength, coupled with a simple mechanical labor, industrial workers become alienated a machine. "
"Alienation", this philosophy with the specialized vocabulary and production processes, which enter our field of vision.
Prior to these meetings, Foxconn employees continuously jump from a building, has been in the Pearl River Delta and even sparked a nationwide "pay tide." Unexpected collective action of employees, the more the matter waves. In Dongguan, while many businesses are waiting to see the Foxconn's move, I keep thinking about a bunch of problems to be solved: Add does not add, increase the number, plus a really solve the problem?
Way to pay for the aftermath implied assumption: the real labor is to be or the most important is to be wages. This assumption, we believe that even if not a meaningless question, or at least a one-sided hypothesis.
We found that lack of labor events except material incentives, as well as the spirit of the realities of poverty. Salary may be able to solve some problems, but far from a panacea for all. Different perspectives found the reason may be diverse, but with economic sociology perspective, we believe that the recent spate of labor problems, are inseparable from the initiator assembly line production. Is it induced by Wang Yang pointed out, "alienation" dilemma.
Ford assembly line method was invented in 1913, it will manufacture the whole product, isolated as a relatively independent processes, through the specialized division of labor to increase productivity. , The Ford system and grafted together with the Taylor system. Taylor made the man as selfish, indolent economic animals, in order to achieve maximum efficiency of labor and production methods are standardized, the labor process with standard time ... ...
Fordism and Taylorism combination of the feudal era craftsmen to create a sense of achievement relative to the finished product is completely destroyed, as Marx's "Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844" says: "He is not sure his own work, and is negative themselves, but are unfortunately not happy, is not free to play to their physical and mental, but to make his tortured body, spirit by the devastation. "
Based on the industrialization of Marxist thinking, put forward the "alienation" of propositions to be simple to say that alienation is the man who created the object, but instead of being enslaved by property; pipeline to meet the human material desires, but also the spirit of mankind as a slave pipeline.
Ford made the last century in the West 60's a crisis, new understanding of human nature, the recognition of human dignity, who changed the concept of economic animals. Work is calling attention to people's self-esteem, take care of people's normal social interaction and psychological needs. Automatic start, a lot of creative work is developed, became popular in lifetime employment, social welfare policy global debut.
However, the trouble around the world, only to be transferred, rather than being resolved. 30 years, from the western industrial model transplanted quickly pierce the shell of traditional farming culture in the manufacture of prosperity, but also for the line is to create "human form screws." For the first generation of workers, who used to keep life Poor, submissive, so this kind of problem is still not lead to collective identity crisis. However, with the growth of the new generation of migrant workers, assembly line in China for the first time suffer the most severe torture.
When the personality, self-generation migrant workers found that employees have no other career in the face of the significance of standardized lines, derived from a deep frustration disappointment and dissatisfaction. Three decades the process of industrialization, the Chinese began to crack, from Foxconn to the recent series of events is a tragedy of this show cracks.
Face tide raises, companies hesitate; the face of social problems, the government worried. Pipelined mode of production is currently impossible to be completely abandoned, like the value system soothes the soul, but this road seems to be more difficult, how to do key to the whole of society today are seriously looking for answers.
When other people are still concerned about wages, working conditions, living arrangements and other human problems, we look into the assembly line. We propose pipeline criticism, it is not completely abandon the appeal, but to guide readers a new perspective from another, more comprehensive thinking and cause the formation of labor. We attempt to explore the system, such as cell and other new modes of production, hoping to help the commercial sector to explore a new way to help the politicians to carry out a more precise social repair.
