本文剖析中國農村自從改革開放以來出現的新形式的剝削機制。作者提出身分差序的概念,以之建構一個多重剝削的分析架構,用來詮釋當前中國農村內部的社會經濟關係。根據此一架構,我們發現中國農村,尤其是東南沿海地區,正在浮現兩個新的階層。身分資本家,以及民工階級。身分資本家乃掌握土地控制權的農村幹部,作為跨國資本進入中國的掮客,而收取經濟租金。而由內地農村移動而來的民工,則處於這個多重剝削結構的最底層,成為最弱勢的群體。在研究方法上,本文採取個案式的田野調查,深度描述珠江三角洲地區一個從事加工出口的村落,以之印證本文的理論觀點。
This article explores a new form of exploitation in coastal China. A concept of differential status is set forth to analyze multiple exploitation in the process of rural industrialization. Based on the analytical framework, two emerging social strata can be identified: ”status capitalists” and migrant labors. The former, composed of rural cadres, control land rights and are there. by able to collect economic rents from foreign capital in exchange of their patronage. The latter, as non-native residents in the village, are underprivileged and severely deprived. The article adopts a research strategy of what Michael Burawoy calls extended case method. A case study was conducted in a village in the Pearl River Delta, Guangdong Province.