争夺地带：从基层政府化解劳资纠纷看社会转型

摘要：本文通过对华南PS街道办事处化解劳资纠纷的过程及相关事件的田野研究，提供了一个关于2008年劳动合同制度实施的具体案例分析。笔者发现，在《劳动合同法》生效以后，街道办事处在劳资纠纷中的角色由过去的放任转向了干预，并人为地降低了法律的执行标准，以预防可能出现的社会不稳定因素。笔者认为，劳动合同制度未能得到有效实施是受制于多个相互联系的社会过程——如基层政府的组织环境、城市化以后街道办事处与社区关系的变化、产业的升级转型等——的互动。本研究表明，在评估地方政府在社会转型中的作用时，需要特别关注地方背景和具体的制度条件。

Contested Terrain:Social Transformation Seen in the Process of Resolving Labor Disputes by a Local Government

Based on the fieldwork studying the process of resolving labor disputes by PS District government in Southern China， this paper presents a concrete case of the implementation of the Labor Contract Law passed in 2008. The author has found that since the Law took effect， the district government has transformed its permissive role toward an intervening one， and that the district government has purposefully lowered the execution standard of the Law to prevent possible social instability. The author argues that the ineffective enforcement of the labor contract system is the result of the interaction among several interlocking social processes， for example， the organizational environments of the local government， changes in the relationships between the district government and the community， the industrial upward transformation， etc. The author’s research shows the importance of the local background， historical processes and concrete institutional conditions in understanding the ongoing social transformation in China.