Research Of The Space Factor's Influence On The Employees' Collective Action In The State-owned Enterprise

The relationship between the space and the collective action is a front field in the research of social movement. The thesis reviews the retired employees safeguarding their rights in the northwest state-owned enterprise on the spot in order to explore the influence of space factor on the collective action by the methods of qualitative research and case study, combining the space theory of collective action and resource mobilization theory as tool of theory. The five sections of the thesis are as following:The first section is the preface that describes the background of the selected topic and related researching problem, the intention and meanings of research, and then identifies the basic concepts, research methods and the analysis framework on the basis of summarizing correlative literature.The second section gives the survey of a state-owned enterprise's community, and describes the origin, the process and the ending of a collective action organized by the retired employees in the state-owned enterprise in detail.The third section shows the space structure of the collective action which includes three kinds of spaces in the state-owned enterprise under the unity system. The fist is the employees'residential space of welfare. In the society of unity system, the unity undertakes not only the function of production, but housing allocation and other welfare functions. The unit built dwelling houses in the courtyard or made use of every bit of space to set the residence area for the convenience of yield. The houses were allocated to the employees as the welfare and thus they live together without rights of choosing houses freely, forming the special living space structure. The second is space of leisure, which was comprised by practice center of employee and chatting circle at the entrance to the building, the former is institutionalization in the unity, while the latter is non-institutionalization. The third is sacred space which is between yielding and dwelling areas, located by symbolic buildings such as monuments. The space has the meaning of ideology and served as the centre square of assembly and leisure.The fourth section is the keystone that analyzes the space influence on the collective action from five points. Firstly, it studies how the space develops the employees'community consciousness and benefit identity, which is the social foundation of collective action. Secondly, space environment prompts resources mobilization of collective action to save the time and economic cost. Thirdly, it analyzes the information collection and transmission in two spaces of practice center and chatting circle. The fourth is the selective inspiration of space on the collective action. The isolated and narrow space created by unit system is an acquaintance society or social net that has the functions of potential monitoring, rewards and punishments, in case of hitchhiking. The fifth reveals how the space is available for organizers to construct and convert the strategies of collective action, insuring of the birth and development of the collective action.The fifth is the conclusion and discussion. The conclusion summarizes five points of space's influence on the collective action. The discussion puts forward several discoveries and the theory model on the basis of the former space theory of collective action. The discoveries are as follows; firstly, the people living in the same space have the community consciousness that easily converts to collective identification. When great event relevant to the group took place, it prompts people having the benefit identification to create collective action. Secondly, space, time and money are the resources and space can save time and economic cost during the collective action. Thirdly, the space structure has the potential monitoring, rewards and punishments function to form the selective inspiration in the latent actors, in case of hitchhike. Fourthly, when a building in the public space has stress symbol, the space is endowed with symbolic meaning and has the unimaginable effects on the collective action. At the end of the thesis, it points out the disadvantages in the thesis.