工会工作的创新之路--访大连开发区工会主席苗丰仁

新形势下,工会工作贵在创新.大连开发区工会工作在不断的创新中得到加强,职工权益在工会工作创新中得到维护.只有紧密结合实际不断创新,才能把握工作的主动,这是大连开发区工会工作的重要经验之一.     

工会应把农民工作为维权的重点

农民工已成为工人阶级的重要组成部分,但他们又是一个弱势阶层,其自我维权能力很弱,且权益受侵犯最严重,工会应切实担当起维护的职责,把农民工作为维权重点,加大其工作力度,进行重点突破,使农民工问题能得到彻底解决。     

国有控股企业职工董事问题刍议

建立职工董事、监事制度被认为是完善公司治理结构的有效方法 ,但在理论上还存在一些逻辑上的问题 ,在实践中也存在许多操作上的问题 ,主要是各利益主体之间的矛盾及外部环境与条件的限制。因此 ,解决这些问题最为有效的途径即建立职工持股制度。     

转型社会中我国国企职工的非制度参与

党的十一届三中全会后,中国社会进入了转型时期。社会转型给具有浓重计划经济色彩的国有企业带来了巨大的改革压力。在改革过程中,职工承担了较多的改革成本。同时,由于国企职工具有较高的组织程度和参与意识,以及转型社会中制度设计的不完善、滞后和制度的失效,职工的非制度参与也呈现出扩大的趋势。非制度参与是一把双刃剑,既可以促进矛盾的解决、促进制度化建设,又可能激化矛盾、引发社会动荡。因此,在社会转型的过程中,深入研究非制度参与,具有重要的理论与现实意义。     

The Impact of Distributive and Procedural Justice on Social Service Workers

The concepts of fairness and justice are embodied within the organizing principle of social justice. Although social justice is a primary focus of social work, social service workers are not always treated with fairness by their own employers. The results from a survey of 255 social service employees from a variety of agencies in Northwest Ohio indicate that distributive justice and procedural justice, two dimensions of organizational justice, are both significant predictors of job satisfaction and organizational commitment, with procedural justice having two to three times the impact of distributive justice.     

Local aid workers in the digital humanitarian project: between “second class citizens” and “entrepreneurial survivors”

This paper examines the experiences of Filipino workers recruited for technology and communications work by international aid agencies involved in the Typhoon Haiyan response. Filipino workers, many of whom were personally coping with the social and economic impact of this disaster, were hired on short-term contracts to test and implement various digital humanitarian innovations such as feedback and hazard mapping technological platforms. These workers were doubly marginalized: first, as tech workers whose work was viewed by aid officers on the ground as less substantial than that of food or shelter programs; and second, as local voices often drowned out by national and international colleagues. Moving beyond the usual figure of the cosmopolitan and adventure-seeking Western humanitarian acting on distant suffering, this paper draws attention to local aid workers’ aspirations for personal and professional mobility as they seize novel opportunities opened up by the digital humanitarian agenda. It outlines how the digital humanitarian project’s ambition to facilitate the inclusion of disaster-affected communities is fundamentally undermined by labor arrangements that doubly marginalize local aid workers.     

关于培育工人权利意识的思考

在社会转型过程中,虽然工人权利意识得到了较大提升,但其发育程度与建设法治国家的目标仍有很大差距。为缩小和消灭这个差距,必须从权利意识的发展、权利的主体和权利的内容三个方面再作深入研究。     

国有企业深化改革过程中的职工思想问题与对策

在国企改革过程中,职工思想问题主要有以下特点:思想认识多样化,价值取向多元化,利益追求公开化,矛盾冲突尖锐化。把握国企改革中职工的思想问题,制定措施,加强教育引导,对于推进企业改革,促进企业稳定发展,具有重要意义。     

From global workers to local entrepreneurs: Sri Lanka’s former global factory workers in rural Sri Lanka

Abstract

Working in Sri Lanka’s urban free trade zones (FTZs) introduces Sri Lanka’s rural women to neoliberal ways of fashioning selves, which subsequently not only shape village entrepreneurial activities but also initiate negotiations in kinship, marriage, domestic arrangements, and community relations. The knowledges and networks that they develop while at the FTZ allow former workers to connect with global production networks as subcontractors, making them part of the cascading system of subcontracting that furthers the precarity of regular FTZ work. This article explores how these former workers manipulate varied forms of capital – social, cultural and monetary – to become local entrepreneurs and community leaders, while simultaneously initiating changes in rural social hierarchies and gender norms. When neoliberal economic restructuring manifests within local contexts it results in new articulations of what it is to be an entrepreneur and what it is to be a worthy, young, married woman. Overall, the paper sheds light on the fragmented and uneven manner in which neoliberal ethos take root in rural South Asia.