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A Study Of The Social Network And The Urban Laid-off Women’s Re-employment

Posted on:2017-04-07Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S S WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2297330488483744Subject:Sociology
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Nowadays, the SOE reform continues to deepen. With the structural reform of the supply-side, the re-employment of laid-off workers has once again returned to the centre stage of public attention. And the re-employment processes were tough and full of rough patches especially for urban laid-off women workers.As a former large state-owned textile enterprise of Hubei Province, XM Textile Group completed the rectification by the end of 2005 under the guidance of national policy. Nearly ten thousand workers of the state-owned factory were forced unemployed. Most of the laid-off women workers were frustrated in searching for another job because of restrictive factors such as gender, age, and job skills, and eventually they have to rely on informal ways to realize re-employment. In this paper I choose the urban unemployed women workers as the research object. Viewing from the social network perspective, the reconstruction and application of the relationship of unemployed female workers was analyzed along the internal development logic of "the Impact of unemployment and Psychological changes" to "Search and Reconstruction of Networks ", "Re-employment Action Strategy" to "the Using of Relationship and Re-employment". We reviewed the process of re-employment retrospectively in order to analyze the different action strategies of unemployed women workers in the face of the laid-off rejection, and the dynamic process of the reconstruction of social relations from the micro level.Because of individual variation, the social networks of laid-off workers are not the same and there are also slightly differences in social reconstruction and using. But as a whole, there are still some regular patterns as the following:Firstly, due to the simple social intercourse and the low social network density, most of the laid-off female workers have strong reliance on their families. Secondly, certain regularity can be found in the usage of the network by the laid-off female workers, who keep families as their central in the process of constructing and using of network. The process of their reemployment is from their families to the outside, in other words, from the strong ties to weaker ties. Thirdly, there is a chain in the reemployment. The intermediary, especially the family members, could be helpful in building new network. But it is the key related person that plays a decisive role in the job-searching process.
Keywords/Search Tags:social relations, urban laid-ofr female workers, re-employment
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