要重视对农民工的政治经济学研究

本文从经济、政治和文化方面提出了农民工的产生所带来的一系列重大问题:农民工是中国劳动者从农民向工人转变的过渡性社会阶层,反映了中国经济发展的特殊矛盾;作为农民工两种存在形式的在乡农民工和进城农民工是这个矛盾发展的两个阶段;农民工双重收入及其对国民经济的意义;农民工带来的农民分化和工人阶级队伍的两重化及其后果;农民工的小农意识和阶级意识的矛盾以及农民工作为末代农民的历史与世界意义等。对农民工上述问题的研究局限于社会学和发展经济学是远远不够的,必须重视对农民工的政治经济学研究。

Importance Should Be Attached to Political Economic Studies of Peasant Laborers

This article examines the series of problems given rise to by the spread of peasant laborers from the perspectives of economy,politics and culture.These problems include: this work force forms a special transitional social class of peasants in the process of becoming workers,reflecting the particular contradictions in China's economic development;two types of existence of these peasant laborers,peasant laborers in the rural areas and peasant laborers in the cities,stand for two stages of the contradiction;the double income of peasant laborers and its significance to national economy;the consequent division of peasants and dual structure of the working class;the contradiction of the peasant ideology and class consciousness of these peasant laborers,and the historical and worldwide significance of this last generation of peasants.The author concludes that it is not appropriate to confine researches on these problems to studies of sociology and developmental economics.These problems should be scrutinized in the light of political economics.