消散式遏制：中国劳工政治的比较个案研究

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Why have the radical labor unrests in China been gradually pacified by the state instead of getting sustained and expanded? This paper tries to answer this question by comparing two groups of workersstate workers vs. temporary workers with a focus on the concrete processes and mechanisms of these workers’ struggles to explore how they varied different struggle strategies including street protests, collective petitions, and court arbitrations to interact with the state agents. The study discovered that the two types of workers had obtained different symbolic rewards instead of material concessions. Their major difference in the form to get satisfaction resulted from the state agents’ differentiated strategic responses to the different social positions and historical trajectories of the two types of workers. Unlike the classical “fragmentation” argument which attributes the working class’s inaction to its internal divisions, the argument in my paper about the “dispersive containment” focuses on the interaction between the differentiated workers and the local state agents, during which the workers lost their initial challenging momentum and gradually yielded to the state’s peaceful taming so that they didn’t get their class identity that could have been possible through their struggles.

Key words: street protests， , collective petitions，, legal arbitration，, labor disputes, Dispersive containment，

CHENG Xiuying. Dispersive Containment: A Comparative Case Study of Labor Politics in China[J]. Chinese Journal of Sociology.

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