The Class Attribute And Developing Trend Of The Current Urban Migrant Worker In China

The productivity in rural area has got a great increase since the adaptation of reform and opening-up policy, especially owing to the rural economic restructure carried out in China. Great changes have taken place in the farmers'job-selection, because they have more freedom than ever before. Many farmers begin undertaking non-agricultural jobs in other areas even in cites. After decades of development in the past, the amount of urban migrant workers in our country has climbed to more than one hundred million from several million, which requires a new assessment about their place. An adequate analysis of the class attribute and a moderate forecast of development trend of urban migrant workers with class theory and class analysis method of Marxism are the most fundamental method to treat urban migrant workers on the present stage correctly, which is a very important part of grasping the current class situation in China. It is the theoretical foundation for policy-making. The significance of the study lies also in the consolidation of the class basis and expansion mass base of our Party; moreover, it is of great importance to deal with current social contradictions and realize social harmony, and push forward the course of industrialization and urbanization.The peasant laborer said in the thesis is that the laborers who leave their hometown and go to city in other area and work there, is also be called urban migrant workers. The present migrant workers have lost the position in division of labor in society of the farmer class, and have the position in division of labor in society of the working class, but they do not have the economic status and the class-consciousness of the working class. Therefore, the urban migrant workers are is a stratum between the farmer class and the working class. Being in a transitional period, the urban migrant workers will become a part of working class in China, which is not only determined by the general rule of human society but also by the economic and society situation in China. It will be a long process: the urban migrant workers in China will take a long time to have the economic status and the class-consciousness of the working class. At the same time, the thesis hold that the part of the working class coming from urban migrant workers can narrow the gap between urban and rural development,and is vital to Chinese industrialization and modernization.