Open Borders to a Revolution: Culture,Politics and Migration

Susan Migden Socolow, The Bureaucrats of Buenos Aires, 1769–1810: Amor al Real Servicio (1987), xxi + 356 (Duke University Press, Durham, N.C., $45.00).

W. Hamish Fraser, Conflict and Class. Scottish Workers 1700–1838 (1988), 202 (John Donald, £20.00).

Margaret Ripley Wolfe, Kingsport, Tennessee: A Planned American City (1987), xii + 259 (The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, £24.00).

Carl Chinn, They Worked All Their Lives. Women of the Urban Poor in England, 1880–1939 (1988), xii + 187 (Manchester University Press, Manchester, £22.50).

Linda Bryder, Below the Magic Mountain: A Social History of Tuberculosis in Twentieth‐Century Britain (1988), xv + 298 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, £30.00).

F. B. Smith, The Retreat of Tuberculosis 1850–1950 (1988), 271 (Croom Helm, £25.00).     

Men's Migration and Women's Lives: Views from Rural Armenia and Guatemala*

Objectives. This study seeks to comparatively assess the consequences of men's migration for gender roles and relations in Armenia and Guatemala. Methods. We use 29 in‐depth interviews conducted with women in Guatemala and 27 interviews conducted in Armenia, complemented with field observations. Results. Men's migration exerts diverse effects on their wives' lives, and these effects are mediated by the sociocultural milieu in which the women live and by the context in which the men generate incomes. As do other studies, we find that women take on added responsibilities when their partners migrate for work, but unlike most other studies, our data do not show that these new responsibilities significantly transform women's status and relationships. Conclusions. On balance, the division of labor established through the husbands' migration further reinforces gender inequality. Men's role as breadwinners and primary decisionmakers is further strengthened, as is women's subordinate position in the household.     

Welfare Reform in America: A Clash of Politics and Research

The 1996 welfare reform law radically changed welfare as we knew it, after many years of debate and concerns across the ideological spectrum. Research should have provided essential information to revise the program, but instead, research was used as an ideological weapon to support conflicting points of view. President Clinton promised to end welfare as we know it but his welfare reform plan was superceded by the election of a Republican majority of the House and Senate in 1994. The resulting welfare bill included key elements from the Republican Contract with America. The purpose of this article is to describe how political pressures resulted in a dramatic change in law, despite doomsday predictions and almost no solid information about the law's likely impact.     

冲突与融合:魏晋南北朝时期南人北上刍议

民户大迁移是魏晋南北朝重要的历史特征,除了西北少数民族内徙和"永嘉丧乱"后北民南迁,实际上还存在南民北迁的情况。按北迁南人身份、地位上的差异可分为宗室成员、大族士人、下层民众,而促使其迁徙的动因则各有不同。北方统治者在不同的政治、军事态势之下,对各类北迁人员有不同的处置方法。这一时期的南人北迁,不仅增强了南北之间的文化交流,促进了民族融合,更是南北之间由相互敌视、冲突转变为彼此认可和接纳的重要推动力,对我们中华民族的最终形成,"中华一体"观念的出现有着重大的影响及意义。     

Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America

Norman Cohn, Europe's Inner Demons (1975), xiv+302 (Chatto‐Heinemann for Sussex University Press, £4.50).

Eugene Kamenka and R. S. Neale (eds), Feudalism, Capitalism and Beyond (1975), viii+147 (Edward Arnold, £3.95, paperback £1.95).

David G. Hey, An English Rural Community: Myddle under the Tudors and Stuarts (1974), 260 (Leicester University Press, £5.80).

Enid Gauldie, Cruel Habitations: A History of Working‐Class Housing 1780–1918 (1974), 363 (Allen &; Unwin, £5.75, paperback £3.00).

Lee Holcombe, Victorian Ladies at Work; Middle‐Class Working Women in England and Wales, 1850 to 1914 (1974), x+253 (David and Charles, Newton Abbot, £4.95).

Bo Öhngren, Folk i rörelse. Samhällsutveckling, flyttningsmönster och folkrörelser i Eskilstuna 1870–1900 (1974), 414+26 pp. English summary (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Historica Upsaliensia No. 55, Uppsala). (People on the Move. Social development, migration patterns and popular movements in Eskilstuna 1870–1900)

Michelle Perrot, Les Ouvriers en Grève: France 1871–1890 ( 1974), 2 volumes, 900 (Mouton: Paris and The Hague, Dfl 149). (Workers on Strike: France 1871–1890)

J. E. Knodel, The Decline of Fertility in Germany, 1871–1939 (1974), xix+306 (Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., £7.60).

Kenneth D. Brown (ed.), Essays in Anti‐Labour History: responses to the rise of Labour in Britain (1974), viii+409 (Macmillan, £10.00).

Bob Jessop, Traditionalism, Conservatism and British Political Culture (1974), 287 (George Allen and Unwin, £4.65).     

对雇佣劳动的再认识——从现代科技革命到社会发展,从雇佣劳动到体面劳动

雇佣劳动是区别于小农性自我劳动的一种劳动生产方式,雇佣劳动实现了劳动和生产资料的充分结合,催生了商品经济的产生,逐步地实现了人类社会从农业到工业的巨大变化,实现了全社会的集约化生产。在现代科技革命和人类社会发展中具有基础性作用。然而对于雇佣劳动的认识,我们有一个发展的过程。劳动力产权与资本产权的平等性认识,有助于我们对雇佣劳动的正确理解,从而有利于社会劳动生产关系的协调。     

情感劳动中的积极体验:深层表演、象征性秩序与劳动自主性

情感劳动研究的一个重要取向是从组织心理学的视角探究情感劳动对从业者造成的负面影响及形成原因，但对其可能带来的积极体验没有给予足够关注。本文以月嫂为例，从文化社会学的视角探索情感劳动从业者如何通过边界工作创造积极的工作体验。研究发现，能够获得积极体验的月嫂会采用“深层表演”策略主动破除边界，将工作关系拟亲属化，并进行一定程度的“慈善”劳动。她们还通过打造“育儿专家”的形象来建立象征性秩序，以便在与雇主的互动中争取主动。这两种策略都是劳动者通过构建象征性边界来挑战社会性边界的过程。本文认为，情感劳动的“自主性”应纳入关系视角，关注劳动者建立平等而有意义的社会关系的能力，而非仅强调边界清晰的独立“自我”和对劳动过程的自主控制。