The Study On The Collective Action Of The Migrant Workers In China

The problem of Migrant workers has always been the focus of scholars. Recently,with the urbanization process, the number of Migrant workers showed an increasing trend, accompanied by a surge in the mass incidents of migrant workers. In the existing research, scholars always put their attention to the workers city integration and employment problems, few of them pay their close attention on the collective action of Migrant workers. Because most Migrant workers gathered in the factory, Therefore,the author thinks that factory research under the environment of Migrant workers’ collective action has a certain value.On the research of collective action, the western scholars’ opinions are divided into two major categories, rational tendency and emotional tendency. Due to the differences in national conditions, the Western collective action theory should not be directly applied to the analysis of the collective action of Chinese migrant workers.Chinese think highly of the “relationship” which means social network from the theoretical. Different from the previous scholars’ viewpoint, Social network view of individual participation in collective action is rational and emotional mixed process.Therefore, the author thinks that the study of the collective action of migrant workers from the perspective of social network has innovation. In addition, the concept of social network is very broad, author will be divided into two categories- the original social network and the new type of social networks and then analyze the relationship between the social network and collective action.Through the survey, it is found that the different types of social network of migrant workers will have different effects on their participation in collective action.First, the original social network is a network of Migrant workers have already own and can have an effective impact on collcetive action. The original social networkincludes genetic relationship and geographical relationship. The genetic relationship is the obstacle factors of migrant workers’ participation in collective action and on the one hand because of the interests of the family the migrant workers choose not to participate in collective action, on the other hand, workers and family members information asymmetry hindering the occurrence of collective action, and this is one of the important conclusions of this paper; Geographical relationship is the emotional factor of migrant workers’ participation in collective action, and the higher homogeneity in the geo relation and the information symmetry urge the peasant workers to participate in it. Second, the new social network refers to migrant workers entering the city due to their own development needs to build a new network relations,including the working relationship network, unfamiliar crowd network. In the factory environment, the working relationship network includes the roommate, colleagues and leaders relationship. In the analysis of collective action, the author found that these three relations and collective action has an indivisible link: Roommate is a hotbed of collective action of brewing; relationship between colleagues provide basis for common interests; leadership is collective action fuse. Because of its low density, the network of strange people makes the speed of information dissemination, which will lead to the expansion of collective action. Third, the environment of migrant workers is complex instead of unique. The workers’ action may not only by the primitive social networks influence, may also have new social networks influence, when in such a situation, the author draws the conclusion that: In the early stage of collective action,the migrant workers were hindered by the primitive social network, especially the genetic relationship, and once the collective action occurred, the migrant workers were affected by the new network relationship. At last, the paper puts forward the measures to solve the collective action of migrant workers in the factory environment to realize the social stability.The author adopts the method of field observation, interview and questionnaire.Dynamic research methods are used to study the dynamic collective action events.Guangzhou province witness a collective action in the L factory last year, in order to know more about this event, author interview 8 migrant workers who joined in the collective action. For the research of the social network, the author adopts the static research method. Through the questionnaire and interview method, issued 102 questionnaires in H factory research ingzhou, Hubei and to understand the social network of migrant workers to participate in the collective action motivation.