Identity Property Rights Reform

In the western society, since the self-regulating market has been established in the nineteenth century, the concept of institutionalized private property rights is only a premise of economic theory for a long time, but not constitutes a research issue. But the economic system transformation in the socialism countries has given a new meaning to the property rights. No matter In Russian, as a representative of Eastern Europe, or in Poland, as a representative of the central Europe, in the process of pushing forward the property rights reform, workers are all participants, even performers. Furthermore, the transformation of workers'identity does not constitute a single agenda of property rights reform. It is a "natural" evolutionary process with the change in nature of ownership of the enterprises. But there are three obvious characteristics of the property rights reform in the state-owned enterprises of China, which differed from the eastern European countries. Firstly, in China, usually after the transforming of the workers'identities, the enterprises will operate the ownership replacement. Secondly, during the process of property rights reform, the large-scale collective appealing to the higher authorities for help and the collective conflicts both are related to the identities'changing of the workers. Finally, after the complete of the identities'changing and ownership replacement, even the enterprises have been broken and auctioned or faded, some laid-off workers of the enterprises still struggled for their own rights through different ways, such as appealing to the higher authorities for help, etc. The three characteristics revealed a basic truth: the identities of workers in state-owned enterprises are their important basis to date and share the enterprises'property rights. In the view of the beginning of Chinese state-owned enterprises'property rights reform, the essence of the problem is not the possession and dealing of the property, especially not the monopolistic market contracts. On one hand, to the state-owned enterprises, before the reform, the property rights were"lacked", the country is the only legal subject of the property rights, there is a contractual relationship commissioned by the administration and the enterprise itself which is an unreal property constitution. On the other hand, to the individual workers, the property rights are a bundle of social relationship given by the identity constitution, which existed in the national politic system and the welfare system of the enterprises. Therefore, property rights reform of the state-owned enterprises refers to two aspects. First, to the enterprises, the reform means the property rights replacement of the enterprise. Second, to the workers, the reform means to change their identity benefits, such as the employment, pension and medical treatment which they enjoyed for a long time, namely the transformation of the identity which is the relationship structure between the country, the enterprises and workeres to interact and share. The property rights reform of Chinese enterprises was operated under the redistribution system which didn't abandon the traditional system totally and the market mechanism which was not totally introduced in. The interaction and merging of the uncompleted inner-system logic and the uncompleted outer-system are important premise to make Chinese property rights reform appeared a uncompleted property reform. In the process, the rational basis of workers'appealing to their identities'rights and benefits in the state-owned enterprise is the continuity of national politic system and its institutional commitments to the workers'identities'rights.