當代中國社會轉型中知識勞工的困境研究：以出版產業的編輯人員為例

The Problems of Knowledge Workers in China's Social Transformation: A Case Study of Editors in the Chinese Publishing Industry

Contributing to contemporary studies on knowledge workers, this paper aims to examine the four critical problems for editors in the Chinese publishing industry from the theoretical perspective of the political economy of communication. These problems, tightly associated with current social transformation, including technological, political and economic ones, and, most importantly, changes in class relations and power dynamics are the following: problems related to technological change, problems of how to follow the political principle in the media marketization process, problems brought about by the smashing of the work-unit system, and problems resulting from internal divisions within knowledge workers. Moreover, by incorporating findings discovered in the case studies of two publishing houses in Shanghai, this paper addresses the wider social relationship between communication and the institutional power structure in which editors, and knowledge workers in general, are situated.