迈向"十二五"时期中国劳动关系的现状和政策取向

到"十一五"末期,我国二、三产业的就业人员已占劳动人口总数的61.9%,中国的雇佣劳动者已成为劳动人口的主体,劳动关系已成为当今我国最重要的经济和社会关系.通过市场、制度、主体和国际等不同因素的角度.分析迈向"十二五"时期我国劳动关系的现状和存在问题,评估协调劳动关系的法律政策体系,表明"十二五"时期我国应着力加强集体...     

社会主义市场经济条件下工会的根本历史使命--对"组织起来,切实维权"的再认识

当今我国市场经济体制日趋完善,与市场经济共生的各类矛盾也相伴而生。在众多矛盾中,劳动关系矛盾非常突出。协调好劳动关系,是构建和谐社会的关键问题。作为协调劳动关系主角的工会,其作用也随之凸显出来。“组织起来,切实维权”作为协调劳动关系的根本原则,理所当然地成为工会工作的指导方针,成为社会主义市场经济条件下工会的历史使命。     

变动中的劳动世界与工会的未来——第十二届"亚洲社会论坛"侧记

随着经济全球化的发展,各国劳动关系都发生了巨大的变化,工会也遇到了前所未有的挑战。如何在市场竞争中如此激烈的形势下,既要保持国家和企业的竞争力,又能维护劳动者的权益,是各国工会急需解决的重大课题。本届论坛以“变动中的劳动世界与工会的未来”为主题,对亚洲与会各国和地区的劳动关系进行了分析和研究,并注重探讨了工会在劳动关系中应当发挥的重要作用。     

贯彻《劳动合同法》工会要把握"四点"

<劳动合同法>的颁布实施是在我国社会主义法制建设进程中贯彻科学发展观、合理调整社会关系、促进社会和谐的一个重大步骤.这部重要法律在制定过程中经过广泛听取、认真吸收社会各方面的意见,合理地规范了劳动关系,是民主立法、科学立法的又一典范,为构建与发展和谐稳定的劳动关系提供了有力的法律保障,必将对我国经济社会生活产生深远影响.工会组织应积极行动起来,准确把握自身定位,力争在构建和谐劳动关系、维护劳动者权益、形成社会化维权格局、强化监督检查等方面把握基本点、找准切入点、抓好链接点、落实关键点.     

努力探索协调劳资关系的有效途径--威海高技术产业开发区工会坚持"整体联动"、"全优服务"取得实效

随着开发区社会经济成份、组织形式、就业方式、利益关系和分配方式日益多样化和职工队伍不断壮大及企业内部结构日益复杂化的情况下,如何协调和处理好企业劳动关系特别是非公有经济组织劳动关系,已成为各开发区工会的重要工作内容。威海高技术产业开发工会,近年来坚持“整体联动”、“全优服务”,努力探索推进协调劳资关系,取得较好成效。     

第九届"亚洲社会论坛"综述

在经济全球化和区域合作不断发展的背景下,在亚洲各国和地区,以三方协商机制为主的社会对话与合作,应当以保障劳动者合法权益、促进劳动关系的和谐发展为目标,建立诚实互信的社会环境以及完善相关立法.在具体的制度建设上,不同国家和地区可以选择不同形式,积极探索与自身情况相适应的劳动关系协调模式.     

工会组织在创建和谐劳动关系中要做到"五个最大限度"

随着市场经济的发展,用工制度的多元化,劳动关系已成为影响企业发展和社会稳定的重要因素。工会应发挥其组织优势,在创建和谐劳动关系中做到“五个最大限度”,促进企业和职工在愿景、目标、利益上的交融、共进和共赢,推动和谐企业和和谐社会的发展。     

论工会"维权"的发展趋势与对策

随着"强资本"与工会弱势维权之间的矛盾越来越突出,协调劳动关系成为工会维权的主要方式;工会维权的社会化趋势,是由市场经济、职工和工会三方面特征决定的;市场经济是法治经济,工会维权必须依法维权,走维权专业化的道路;形成工会维权"分层定位"趋势的主要原因在于现实中国工会组织形式的多样化和复杂性,工会"两个维护"的性质,以及企业劳动关系的强弱态势.     

"互联网+"新业态企业劳动关系研究——以武汉市Y企业为例

随着信息技术的不断发展,"互联网+"新业态企业的劳动关系逐渐引起了社会的关注.本文通过对武汉Y企业的实证调查,分析了新业态企业劳动关系中存在的问题,提出了相应的解决策略,以期对现有的新业态企业劳动关系研究提供有益的补充.     

企业工会与和谐劳动关系的建构——"工会干部及职工对企业劳动关系的认知与评价"调查报告

企业劳动关系是否和谐,直接影响到我国社会主义和谐社会的建构,而工会能否在构建企业和谐劳动关系方面发挥作用是关键因素.调查显示:我国企业的劳动关系还不够和谐,其原因在于我国劳动力的市场化没有一个合理的劳动力价格形成机制,造成了劳动者收入低,缺少增长机制.若建立这样的机制则要求企业工会能实施行之有效的工资集体协商的博弈行为,而企业工会的依附性使其无法发挥应有的作用.为此,有必要对企业工会的组织体制和运行机制进行改革.     

Close Encounters: Solidarity,Servitude and Postcolonial Feminist Affects and Affiliations

Abstract

This essay offers close readings of three texts that in different ways foreground the problems, possibilities and struggle involved in forging affective connections across difference between women: Kate Clanchy, What is She Doing Here? 2008, Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy, 1991a and Marlene Van Niekerk, ‘Labour’, 2004. The author argues that the incomplete and partial nature of affective moments represented in these texts signals possibilities for a cautiously redefined idea of affective feminist solidarity as it is mobilized in the intimacy of domestic spaces.     

The Functions of Class at the Present Time: Including Taste,or Sex and Class as Culture

Gagnier provides an analytic account of current uses of gender, sex and sexuality, and of class as objective condition, role, identity, subjectivity, performance, product of cultural formation, pain and pleasure. She concludes that we shall do better today to take from the history of political economy a focus on the division of labour, the kinds of work people do, including women's unpaid labour at home, and the ways that work structures identity and subjectivity, than on more abstract class identity (e.g. wage-labourers and capitalists), and to see that both local and global divisions of labour or work patterns are along race and gender lines as much as along class lines. The introduction of consumption models of taste and status draws together both class and gender, for consumption and leisure, the realm for most wage-labourers of pleasure, is as significant in the formation of identity and subjectivity as work, production or pain. We should account for people's pleasures and desires as well as their pain and place in narrowly conceived 'productive' relations. Class is no less significant than it always was, but future work should disaggregate the concept along these lines, mindful of gender salience in the division of labour and the reproduction of class. And it should include critical analysis of the realms of taste, pleasure, consumption, leisure and status.     

Guys and Dolls

The doll has become a figure for the objectification of women, especially in the form of the sex doll, which is routinely taken to be the image of the woman reduced to a condition of pure passivity. But the doll is also, and perhaps even predominantly, a means of ‘guying’ the putative man (the word ‘guy’ entering English with the burning of Guy Fawkes in effigy) and presenting the simplest possible idea of male desire in comically petrified form. Effigies of women indirectly figure the assumed fixation of male desire throughout post-classical European culture. This guying is a repeated feature of stories of the animation of female dolls and statues, from Ovid onwards, which regularly put male protagonists to a kind of mock death, or death by mockery. The author considers the anonymous poem Adollizing: Or, A Lively Picture of Adoll-Worship (1748) alongside the most celebrated instance of doll fetishism in twentieth-century art history—the doll that Oskar Kokoschka had made of his wife Alma Mahler after she left him. The author concludes with a discussion of the contemporary sexual cult of ‘living dolls’, in which men act out the fantasy not of owning, but being a female doll. Here, perhaps, the doll is not only adored as a substitute for some other real object, but is envied as what it is—that is, as a thing, with a thing's power of declining to be subjected to subjecthood. This passion for passivity suggests that there is something that intervenes between the he and she, with swelling erotic force: the it.     

Digging for England in Elizabeth’s German Garden: Imperial Romance and National Femininities in the Early Works of Elizabeth von Arnim

Abstract

The author treats von Arnim’s Elizabeth and Her German Garden and The Solitary Summer as types of imperial romance, showing the ways in which von Arnim quite literally domesticates the genre by adapting discourses of eugenics and racial contest to fit an Englishwoman’s experiences of home-making and gardening in late nineteenth-century Pomerania. Racial fitness is replaced by aesthetic fitness as von Arnim sets up a contest between English and German femininities within the home and garden.     

Introduction to Performing Refusal/Refusing to Perform

This introduction outlines an aesthetic of refusal as it emerges from instances of racialized exhaustion. Described as an aesthetics of minoritarian inaction and non-reproductivity, refusal challenges the centrality of action and repetition as the central tenets of political performance. Instead, the two valences of performing refusal/refusing to perform name an ethics of relation under racial capitalism, negating the dialectic of assimilation or resistance that shape minoritarian political performance, in favor of tactics such as opacity, imperceptibility, and obscurity.     

Taking It Out on the Body? A Phenomenological Study of Young Adults’ Gendered Experiences of Depression and Antidepressant Use

In this article, we use in-depth interviews with young adults in Sweden to explore the gendered and embodied experiences of depression and antidepressant use. Building upon previous phenomenological research, we analyse being depressed and on antidepressants as altered embodied states, in which corporealization—experiencing the body as a material object—is central. Feminist interventions by Toril Moi and Iris Marion Young inform our analysis of embodiment as gendered. The bodily facets of depression include the weight of the anxious body in crying and not sleeping, as well as the weakened or distorted relationship between body, mind and world in brooding thoughts and hopelessness. These experiences of corporealization are not expressed in gendered terms but, when acted out in depression, they do appear to be gendered. The female body becomes “the first battleground”—as the socially endorsed object upon which to act destructively. In contrast, male behaviour is not expressed as self-destructive, but projects in the world are emphasized at the cost of (bodily) well-being. Although antidepressants lift the corporeal weight of anxiety and low mood, they install a new, and in some respects more profound, corporealization of the body. This is expressed as feeling and caring less and being like a thing or machine. It can be understood in terms of an increased distance from the world—not articulated in gendered terms. As a way of existing in the world, the medicated state bears strong similarities to the depressed state from which it was originally an effort to escape. Thus, taking medication can be seen as yet another way of acting on the body as object. Furthermore, it could be suggested from our findings that when the body is not felt—when there is a breakdown of the meaningful relationship between the body and the world—the experience is less gendered.     

'Deeds and Words': The Woman's Press and the Politics of Print

The political and constitutional impact of the early twentieth-century British women's suffrage movement has been the subject of extensive research since the advent of second-wave feminism, yet the broader cultural impact of the movement remains a developing scholarly area. Murray examines the role of the Woman's Press, the publishing house established in 1907 as a strategic component of the Pankhursts' influential Women's Social and Political Union. The press is located within multiple and interpenetrative analytical contexts: examined in turn are its role in the various power struggles of the WSPU and the broader British suffrage movement; its significance as an independent means of cultural production around the contested site of the suffragette; and its ambiguity as a feminist publishing house run by male pro-suffragist and lobbyist, Frederick Pethick Lawrence. The Woman's Press and its central London retail outlet figured prominently in WSPU administration as a material concern-as literature packing department, revenue raiser and recruiting centre. Yet, symbolically, the Woman's Press was also integral to the campaigning of the WSPU to an extent that has generally remained under-examined. As an independent publishing house the press constituted a vital conduit guaranteeing the entry of suffrage arguments into public discourse, and a crucial tool for appropriating and refashioning the contested image of the suffragette in the wider politico-cultural landscape of the day. Acknowledging the significance of the Woman's Press provides both a necessary historical context for the post-1970 feminist press boom, as well as a counterpoint to the ongoing political-financial conundrums that beset its modern descendents.     

Miss Reading

Against the backdrop of western culture's strong investment in gendered clothes, Stockton looks at clothing's intricate relations to shame and, for some queer women and men, the surprising value of these humiliations, especially in the service of sexual attraction. The word 'martyrdom', with its associations to bodily wounding and psychic pain, is not too strong for the acts of clothing and sartorial preference she discusses. Working through concepts that emerge from Sigmund Freud on femininity, Georges Bataille on sacrifice and Leo Bersani on debasement, along with debates among feminist thinkers about the New Woman, Stockton takes up 'martyrs' from three distinct histories, martyrs as diverse as the mannish lesbian of Great Britain's 1920s, American butches and femmes of the 1960s, and even the sailors of post-war France. How public self-betrayal and self-debasement in terms of clothes can offer creative social formations is the focus of this article. The highly famous novels of three queer authors provide the means for this surprising look: Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness, Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues and Jean Genet's Querelle.     

市场经济下劳动力的资本化及其实现途径--对马克思劳动力资本理论的再认识

随着我国经济体制改革的深入发展,货币资本所有者与劳动力资本所有者对财富的分配失衡,成为我国市场经济进一步发展的巨大障碍。只有劳动力资本化才能真正体现劳动力的价值,实现劳动力资本的优化再生,才能真正遏制社会贫富不均现象,促进我国社会主义市场经济的发展和社会的安定团结。     

Introduction to queer circuits: Critical performance and digital praxis

This introduction situates the articles making up this special issue within four thematic clouds, positing queer theorization as broadly relevant for critically engaging with computational technologies and culture. These sub-themes offer suggestions for future queer inquiry and praxis and reflect key terms in performance studies and queer theory that have undergone transformation with the ubiquity of digital technology.