英文摘要 |
Foxconn factory, Apple's essential overseas manufacturer as well as the world's largest one of electrical components (notably electrical connectors for computer components], more than 450,000 workers are employed at the Longhua Science & Technology Park, in Shenzhen, sometimes referred to as ''Foxconn City''. The peasant workers are the major labors. This research investigates the urban condition of these Foxconn workers, analyzing their social reproduction in terms of the individual consumption and urban service provided by the ''Foxconn City'' as a whole. And eventually it is identified as a contemporary mutation of ''sweatshop labor'' in the informational society. It might provide a reflexive perspective on laisser-faire policies of housing, also any other kind of collective consumption, as well the role of local state through Foxconn case study. The peasant workers are incapable to enter into the housing market for housing commodity consumption. They either live in dormitory or become a tenant of ''chengzhongcun'' (urban villages, literally: villages in city]. The former, the industrial capital is the monopoly supplier of housing of peasant workers. The dormitory is the efficient management tool for the reproduction of labor power, but also the disciplined space for the second generation of peasant labor. The latter, the heavily populated density and lack public infrastructure in ''chengzhongcun'' make Foxconn labor as the fragmented space in splintering urbanism under social exclusion. The mega settlements in a rapid development process of Foxconn factories and surrounding ''chengzhongcun'' are the cities without citizens. Evermore the Shenzhen government's city planning, purposely for the push of industrial transformation, has induced the gradual formalization of urban informal sectors and the ongoing gentrification of labor neighborhood. Such a social tendency of class recompose upon Foxconn urban landscape, is speeding up the spatial restructuring of Shenzhen ''world factory'' as a whole. And when the Foxconn capitalist promptly responds to the public accusation of ''sweatshop'', by adding the basic wage for their peasant labors, there is meanwhile a counter development of moving their factories to the inland cities of China. Thus they all together have made the peasant labors trapped into a much more exclusive and polarized urban condition. |