Discipline And Resistance

Since 1978,more and more people have flowed into cities to pursue their future. It is based on the fact that although China’s economy has developed rapidly, but the gap between urban and rural areas is gradually widening. What’s more, as a "word factory" requires plenty of young workers, which attracts many rural female youth to work at factories.Thus, their life also has been involved in the flowing, urban space, factory space.Temporal and spatial control and labor discipline. As the perspective of space theory, this article focuses on the practice of the daily life of female workers in factory. The practice has been influenced by spatial polity from urban and factory. Combining with the macroscopic and microscopic theory of production of space, this article will show power and capital control, the daily life in this control and the resistance and strategic against to power and capital.First of all, youth female workers in factory also live in an enclosed space. In this space, the capital operates its coercive labor strategy to discipline female workers by spatial politics in order to translate them into live tools for production.Secondly, under the control of the city authority and the power of capital discipline, the practice of women’s daily life also has the controlled imprint from the power and capital. They have been struggling in the dual space. This paper selects three aspects of the most representative of young workers’daily life (interaction and relations, the daily consumption and marriage and emotion) to narrate their life.Finally, space not only is as a tool for domination, but it is also as a filed contained resistance. Besides, the young female workers have enhanced their own subjectivity. So resistance in the space is possible. This article has found that there are not substantial and open labor conflicts and collective events, and that young women just use slight resistance and space strategy to maximize the pleasure in the flowing daily life.In conclusion, from the perspective of the production of urban space, young women are entering the space of an edge of the city. This plan of urban space aims to identity and isolation of space for young female workers.It means that they have been labeled with outsiders and secondary identity and excluded from the urban space and urban life from their entering this city. This article has found from a broader perspective of social space, when they come out of the private sector and the traditional rural space gradually and when they have achieved slight victory against to patriarchy, rural youth female does not get freedom and liberation. In the space of flowing, they still are struggling with identity exclusion and capital discipline. Under the pressure of multiple spatial, female workers is in the situation of disability. Being in struggle with power and capital, the power in the society can be an important factor to help them resist capital and improve their life.