戰疫．「綻義」？！－初探新冠肺炎疫情下勞動者身體觀改變的跡象

新型冠狀病毒（Coronavirus）所引發的疫情，對全世界人類勞動、生活、經濟等層面造成巨大影響。自2021年5月中旬進入全國第三級防疫警戒狀態的臺灣亦不例外。此間，基層勞動者面臨的挑戰，不僅是收入減少、工作與個人生活界線模糊化、以及缺乏勞動安全與社會保障等疑慮；更本質的，是身體狀態、身體行為、身體感受以及身體社會意義的轉型。作為前導研究（Pilot Study），本文作者於2021年6月15至24日間，以電話深度訪談六位基層勞動者，藉其經驗、感受與想法，分析回答下列問題。包括：1.疫情期間身體如何受社會環境形塑，出現哪些切身且具身的反應？2.勞動者的身體體現出什麼樣的主觀意志？3.身體觀是否改變，並建構出哪些新的社會價值？初步分析發現，疫情期間勞動者的身體雖仍延續舊有觀念，淪為單純餬口的工具、再現階級分化；但也因勞動及生活環境劇變，生發出新的認知。例如身體在勞動場域上不再隱形、身體及健康需求與勞動間的異化開始受到重視；以及社會長久以來潛藏的盲昧、（受）宰制、公眾利益受操弄等問題重新獲得關注。戰疫之際，身體的切身經驗引領社會問題的重新思索，也綻放出新觀念，以及相應改變的契機。

關鍵字

新冠肺炎；勞動；身體與社會（身體社會學）

並列摘要

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a tremendous impact on human people's labour, life, and economy all over the world. The Taiwanese people, who raised the epidemic alert level for the whole country to Level 3 in response to community transmission in the middle of May, are not exceptional. Meanwhile, the elementary labourers are facing challenges like income-decreasing, labour safety, social security, as well as the blurring of the boundary between work and personal life. Moreover, the status, behaviours, feelings, as well as social meanings of labourers' bodies, are also undergoing deep transformations. For this pilot study, 6 local labourers from different career areas have been interviewed by telephone during the epidemic alert in June, to examine and discuss the following questions: 1. How does the social environment shape people's bodies and their behaviours? 2. Which kinds of subjective thoughts have been embodied by labourers' bodies? 3. Have the views of the body changed and shaped/created new social values? According to the preliminary analysis, the labourers' bodies are still utilized and reduced to a mere tool for subsistence as before during the epidemic. However, some of the new conceptions were also developed due to drastic changes in the labour and the living environment, although labourers' bodies represent class differentiation as usual. For example, the body is no longer ＂invisible＂ in the field of work; the alienation of physical and health needs and working conditions has attracted attention; and the usual blindness, domination/dominated, and public interests have finally regained attention. At the time of beating Covid-19, the personal experiences via body led to the rethinking of social issues. New conceptions and a corresponding opportunity for structural changes were also blooming consequently.