The Embodiment Of Migrant Workers With Pneumoconiosis In The Perspective Of Sociology Of The Body

Pneumoconiosis, a kind of occupational disease in China, is becoming more and more serious. We need to pay attention to the embodiment of the migrant workers who suffered pneumoconiosis disease as a specific individual so that we can walk from the abstract to the concrete.This article introduces the perspective of body to the study of migrant workers who suffered pneumoconiosis. We will link the microscopic painful facts and the macroscopic structure of capital, the state and society. We not only concern "the body did what", but also "what has been done to the body". Thus we can avoid the microscopic study’s theoretical foundation deficiencies, but also avoid the shortcomings of the grand narrative of macroeconomic research. This article is intended to reveal migrant worker’s painful experiences in the workplace and after exiting the workplace. And try to clearly express their physical condition and body experience, and find the social rhythm, and analyzes the entanglement among the pain of the body, the country, the capital and the society.Rural life’s poverty and a series of the state institutional arrangement offer power and opportunity for migrant workers. After entering the workplace, there are no security and health protection measures. This part the author analyzes the body under the labor time, the body in the dormitory labor regime and the body whose health are ignored. When the migrant workers are forced to quit the job field because of the pneumoconiosis, they experience the painful body and increasingly poor body, the silent body and the fighting body.Finally, the author carried on the reflection about the whole article. First, summarizes the dilemma the migrant workers encountered, and then propose solutions. Second, lead discussions on the subject of migrant worker’s body subjectivity. How to make the pneumoconiosis migrant workers from the silence of the body to fight body? The author thinks that improve the organizational degree of the migrant workers and the organizational ability is the most effective way. Migrant workers individual strength is limited, the government should guide the migrant workers to establish the organization, offer professional legal services, make migrant workers really participate in the process of safeguarding their rights. Finally, discuss the possibility of the body as a new era of studying migrant workers who suffered pneumoconiosis.