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Disembedded Employment Relationship and Turnover Intention
of Peasant-Workers ; Based on a Survey of Peasant-Workers in
s 1 (Author 1 Sun Zhongwei, School of Sociology
and Anthropology, E-mail: sew, 1211@163, coms 2
(Author 2: Yang Xisofeng, Lingnan Colleges Sun Yat-sen University)
* 2009
"(09]2D0082) 2011 .
*CL1YJC840007) «(The research was supported by the project “Protecting
Rights of Peasant-Workers: Theories and Practices” ( 09JZD0032 ) and. “ Institutional
Construction of Protecting Rights of Peasant-Workers in the Urbanization Process”
al Science Foundation from China’s Ministry
(1TYJC840007) sponsored by Philosophy and $
cation, )
+ 98+the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta
Sun Zhongwei Yang Xiaofeng
Abstract ; Since 2004, labor shortage has become prominent and it is the reality
that China’ s economy must face, Under this condition, it is of great
significance to discuss the turnover intention of peasant-workers, an area that
has been virtually not studied yet. This study was based on the survey of more
than 2,000 peasant-workers in the Pearl River Delta and Yangtze River Delta in
2010, conducted jointly by the Department of Sociology and Social Work of Sun
Yat-Sen University and the Department of Sociology of Shanghai University.
The focus of the study was to discuss the turnover intention of peasant-workers
according to the perspectives from the theory of job embeddedness. Our
analysis revealed that 65. 4 percent of the peasant-workers intended to leave in
the next five years, with the second generation of peasant-workers having @
higher intention to leave, those in the Pearl River Delta wanting more to leave
than those in the Yangtze River Delta, but married couples, especially when
both in the same city, having lower intention to leave. What had led to the
peasant-workers’ desire to leave The logit regression model found that job
embeddedness had a significant effect on peasant-workers’ intention to leave.
To be specific, the higher the connection between the job and non-job areas,
fimess, and investments, the lower turnover intention of the peasant-workers.
Putting the job embeddedness theory and the reality of the Chinese
peasant-workers’ employment relationship together, this paper concludes that
the current peasant-workers’ employment relationship is of disembedded
nature. The paper further tries to describe the definition, dimensions, and
consequences of disembedded employment relationship, which is seen in the
three aspects of work, communities, and institutions. Specifically, this means
that the subjects, forms, and contents of employment relationship are no longer
constrained by the interpersonal relationships, organizational structures, or
institutional arrangements inside the workplace; nor by the social connections
across communities and cities. cultures, social structures, or public services
outside the workplace. These are the main reasons for the high turnover
intention and turnover rates of peasant-workers.
Keywords; peasant-workers, turnover intention, employment relationship, job
embeddedness
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