Urbanization through dispossession: survival and stratification in China's new townships

IF 4.4 1区 社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY Journal of Peasant Studies Pub Date : 2015-02-13 DOI:10.1080/03066150.2014.990446
Julia Chuang
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Rural land dispossession has become a dominant mechanism of capital accumulation in the Chinese economy. However, the Chinese economy continues to rely on a migrant labor system that enables enterprises to accumulate capital precisely by not dispossessing laborers, but instead enlisting rural communities in absorbing costs of workforce maintenance. These dual and contradictory mechanisms are particularly visible in China's urban construction sector, where enterprises require both low-cost labor and low-cost land for profitability. This contribution draws on long-term ethnographic research in Lan-ding Village, a labor-sending community undergoing land expropriations in Sichuan Province, to document a new system of class stratification resulting from these dual accumulation mechanisms.
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强占下的城市化:中国新乡的生存与分层
农村土地剥夺已成为中国经济资本积累的主要机制。然而,中国经济仍然依赖于农民工制度,这种制度使企业能够通过不剥夺劳动力,而是让农村社区吸收劳动力维持成本来积累资本。这种双重和矛盾的机制在中国城市建设领域尤为明显,企业需要低成本的劳动力和低成本的土地才能盈利。本文通过对四川兰顶村(一个被征地的劳务输出社区)的长期民族志研究,记录了这种双重积累机制所导致的一种新的阶级分层体系。
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期刊介绍: A leading journal in the field of rural politics and development, The Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS) provokes and promotes critical thinking about social structures, institutions, actors and processes of change in and in relation to the rural world. It fosters inquiry into how agrarian power relations between classes and other social groups are created, understood, contested and transformed. JPS pays special attention to questions of ‘agency’ of marginalized groups in agrarian societies, particularly their autonomy and capacity to interpret – and change – their conditions.
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