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Labor Quarters: Corporative Social Responsibility or Economic Rationality:A Survey of the Enterprises at the Pearl River Delta  

Wei Wanqing,School of Sociology and Anthropology, Sun Yatsen University     

  1. Wei Wanqing,School of Sociology and Anthropology, Sun Yatsen University  
  • Online:2011-03-21 Published:2011-03-21
  • Contact: Wei Wanqing,School of Sociology and Anthropology, Sun Yatsen University E-mail:weiwq20050908@163.com
  • About author:Wei Wanqing,School of Sociology and Anthropology, Sun Yatsen University
  • Supported by:

    This research was supported by the project “Polarization of Wealth and Social Harmony” (09ASH001) of the Key National Social Fund(2009).]

     

Abstract:

 Different from the approach of using the sole perspective of political rights to study labor quarters, this paper, based on the survey of the enterprises at the Pearl River Delta, follows the logic of the global capital economy. An examination of the logic behind the capitaloriented labor quarters leads to a conclusion that, in the face of the intense global competition, it is a competitive strategy that the enterprises provide their workers with living quarters so as to control the workers’ production; therefore, it is an outcome of enterprise economic rationality.

Key words: labors quarters , corporative social responsibility  ,   economic rationality  , labors quarters