중국 농민공 권익보호제도에 관한 소고

Abstract

China's economic reformation has brought about the rapid economic development in cities, thus resulting in a substantial increase in the demand for labor. At the same time, the implementation of rural household contract responsibility system and two-level management system have made it possible for the rural labor to leave the countryside. Under this circumstance, the irresistible historical trend occurs that more and more Chinese farmers are becoming migrant workers in cities. With the development of China's industrialization and urbanization since the late 1980s, a large number of migrant workers have become important human resources for China's national economic development. However, due to China’s systematic reason and the lack of institutions and regulations, the Chinese migrant workers, being at the utmost bottom of the city and not protected equally in rights and interests, have worked very to survive. Therefore, it is both the migrant workers’ urgent requirements and the society’s goals and targets to safeguard effectively the rights and interests of migrant workers by eliminating the unreasonable barriers in Chinese systems. In the perspective of a foreigner, by examining their survival situation in Chinese cities, the author is concerned about the protection of the Chinese migrant workers’ legal rights. Sorting out clearly the main problems faced by the Chinese migrant workers and analyzing the deep-seated causes in the course of China’s development, we may find out some feasible ways for China's migrant workers to apply in protecting their rights and interests.