當代中國社會轉型中知識勞工的困境研究：以出版產業的編輯人員為例

The Problems of Knowledge Workers in China's Social Transformation: A Case Study of Editors in the Chinese Publishing Industry

姚建華(Jianhua Yao)

《傳播文化與政治》 8期 (2018/12) Pp. 77-102

摘要

作為對當代知識勞工研究有益的補充，本文旨在從傳播政治經濟學的理論視角出發，分析中國出版產業中編輯人員所面臨的四個主要的困境。這些困境集中在技術、政治、經濟以及最重要的階級關係和權力變化的層面，並與當前的社會轉型緊密聯繫。導致這些困境的原因主要來自新媒體技術發展、如何在媒體市場化的進程中堅持「共產黨領導」的原則、「單位制」的瓦解與出版社的轉制，以及知識勞工內部的不斷分化。除此之外，通過以上海兩家出版社為案例研究，本文勾勒了傳播產業和包括編輯人員在內的知識勞工所處的制度化的權力結構之間廣泛的社會關係。

關鍵字

出版產業 ； 知識勞工 ； 社會轉型 ； 媒體市場化 ； 編輯人員

並列摘要

Contributing to contemporary studies on knowledge workers, this paper aims to examine the four critical problems for editors in the Chinese publishing industry from the theoretical perspective of the political economy of communication. These problems, tightly associated with current social transformation, including technological, political and economic ones, and, most importantly, changes in class relations and power dynamics are the following: problems related to technological change, problems of how to follow the political principle in the media marketization process, problems brought about by the smashing of the work-unit system, and problems resulting from internal divisions within knowledge workers. Moreover, by incorporating findings discovered in the case studies of two publishing houses in Shanghai, this paper addresses the wider social relationship between communication and the institutional power structure in which editors, and knowledge workers in general, are situated.

並列關鍵字

knowledge workers ； editors ； publishing industry ； media marketization ； social transformation