Space Expansion And Continuation:the Production And Life Of Farmers In Northern Jiangsu

As the premise and foundation of human existence and development,space is one of the forms of material movement and social existence.With people’s long-term practical activities,space gradually changes from naturalness to sociality due to the initiative of humanization.Marx’s space theory shows the characteristics of practicality and continuity of space,and reflects the wide extension and expansion of people’s production and life in people’s space movement.As a material subject,man has the attribute of dynamic material movement in the social space,which is reflected in the social practice that the population flows continuously with the development of economy and society and expands the artificial activity space.As the core content of Marx’s space theory,practical activities enable people to constantly break through the boundaries of the original local space,leave their hometown and step into the social space of the move in place.In the process of continuous migration,people have constructed a modern production and living space that is different from the tradition and follows the tradition.The reexamination of their own development requires them to adapt to the new form of spatial existence.Reform and opening up,as a far-reaching policy in China,has changed China’s poor and backward society to a great extent.The adjustment of policy makes the urban-rural dual society gradually release the constraints on people with the promotion of reform and opening up.Domestic reform and opening to the outside world,on the one hand,promoted the establishment of a large number of factories and enterprises in towns and coastal areas,and promoted the rapid development of market economy.On the other hand,modernization promotes the improvement of agricultural productivity,and mechanized production liberates a large number of rural labor forces.The push-pull effect of the comprehensive social environment has gradually formed a Chinese style population flow dominated by farmers.It broke the traditional pattern of low population mobility in China,and there was a "wave of migrant workers" in the late 1980 s and early 1990 s.It is in this context that the farmers with the sun clan as the main body in Z village in Northern Jiangsu become migrant workers.From the perspective of space,this paper investigates the migrant workers with the sun family as the main body in Z village in Northern Jiangsu,analyzes the changes of their production and living space,and explains the continuation and expansion of their production and life since the 1990 s.The group’s nearly 30 years of mobility,after three generations of time and space turns,has shaped a rich history of changes in production and life caused by rural population mobility.The investigation of their production and life constitutes the main part of this empirical study.First,it describes their breakthrough and expansion in production space by taking the elements of local production space,the shift of production space of half tillage and half work,and the development of production space in inflow areas as the starting point.Second,based on their kinship flow from their hometown in Northern Jiangsu,the construction of new living space changes such as acquaintance society,clothing,food,housing and transportation,and the flow of capital elements in the living space of the moving place,it presents the continuity and adjustment of their living space.Population mobility and migrant workers reflect the social logic of farmers’ modernization.Specifically reflected in:(1)the privatization of farmers migrant workers’ production space.(2)There is an obvious shift of production and life differentiation between farmers and migrant workers.(3)The market-oriented behavior shift of farmers migrant workers’ production and living space.(4)Farmers-migrant workers turn to de stratification.At the same time,on the basis of summarizing the spatial shift of migrant workers in Z village in Northern Jiangsu,this paper reveals the problems of group characteristics in their production and life in FS village in Ningbo,including the lack of production security,life security and so on.In addition,in view of the production and life problems of migrant workers in Z village in Northern Jiangsu,this paper puts forward policy suggestions for reference,in order to help improve and improve the protection of the rights and interests of migrant workers and create a better production and living environment.