Research Of Network Governance On Domestic Workers’ Social Insurance

Along with China’s reform of economic system and urbanization speeding up, the people’s pace of life has been accelerated in modern society; the trend of an aging population and family miniaturization is outstanding in recent years; and with all kinds of social factors, the socialization of housework is more and more obvious. They all make domestic workers, in which women accounts the most, more and more important for modern family. However, because of the double weakness of traditional ideas and women’s low social status, the survival and development status of domestic workers is not optimistic, and their social insurance condition is quite worrying. Lack of social insurance is not only influence their lives and reduce their happiness index, but also restricts the harmony and stability of society. Under the background of building a moderately prosperous society in all its respects and comprehensively deepen reform and opening up, it is even more important whether domestic workers can enjoy social insurance.The problem of domestic workers’social insurance is so complex that government, enterprises, non-governmental organizations, or individuals all have no ability to undertake the responsibility of solving it alone. It should be put in the field of public administration, and pluralistic body should do their own job well, and take their own responsibility. At present, measures have been taken to govern the problem by government, enterprises and civil society, but the governing situation in which they each do things in their own way severely has weakened the governing effect. Based on this, the thesis adopts network governance, makes a thorough analysis into the problem of domestic workers’social insurance and the present governing situation, and builds a network governance blueprint of domestic workers’social insurance by government, enterprises, society and individuals working together. It also makes an innovative attempt to apply network governance theory to the governing practice of domestic workers’ social insurance.The logical frame of the thesis can be divided into the following five chapters:Part one is an introduction which mainly expounds the background and significance of the thesis. It has a run-through of domestic workers’social insurance at home and abroad, defines the core concepts, presents research methods, ideas, frame and innovations of this thesis.Part two is the analysis of theoretical tools. It generally introduces the network governance theory systematically, lays the theoretical foundation for the study on the network governance of domestic workers’social insurance.Part three is empirical analysis including the problem of domestic workers’social insurance and the present governing situation of domestic workers. By the survey conducted on domestic workers, enterprises, government, home service association, labor unions and other social organization in Wuhan, Xi’an, Beijing and Guangzhou, then analyzes the condition of their social insurance and explore the being fragmented problems in the governance of domestic workers’social insurance.Part four is the countermeasure research. Founded on theoretical frame and empirical analysis, it builds a multiple body linkage network governance of blueprint of domestic workers’social insurance, and provides reference to solving domestic workers’ social insurance for government, enterprise and the society.The last part is research conclusion.The innovation of the thesis reflects in the following aspects:The first is the innovation of perspective. The former study on domestic workers largely lay on the protection of their rights and interests, but rarely combine it with public management theory. This thesis uses network governance as its major theory, and makes a further analysis of the current situation of domestic workers’social insurance, the present governing situation and the countermeasure.The second is the innovation of method. The thesis applies an integrated methods which embodies a combination of canonical parse and empirical research, qualitative analysis and quantitative analysis. It adopts literature analysis, survey method, case study, comparative study and a variety of methods. It not only lays emphasis on theoretical analysis, but also supported by detailed data and substantial cases in the interview. What’s more, not only does it attach importance to macro-policy analysis, but also provides guidance of operable action strategy.The third is the innovation of viewpoints. This article is based on the summary and reference to the results of previous studies, through theoretical research and empirical investigation, attribute the problem of domestic workers’social insurance to institutional barriers and lack of governance.The fourth is the innovation of countermeasures. In the discussion of countermeasures, the thesis takes network governance as its main theoretical tool, and builds a macro governance blueprint for the government, the enterprise, and social interaction for the social insurance of domestic workers, and it has a certain degree of innovation.