The Salary Controversy of Dispatched Labors in XongXue Lodge on the Hehuan Mountain: A Field Ethnographic Study

• Main Authors: Hsu, Pei Hsuan, 徐珮瑄
• Other Authors: Yao, Jen To
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/b76jt5

碩士 === 國立清華大學 === 社會學研究所 === 103 === Xongxue Lodge, a hotel directly operated by the Dongshih Forest District Office of the Forestry Bureau, has outsourced their labor needs of housekeeping staff and receptionist for a lapse of time. In order to fight for their basic right of earning reasonable wages, which are included in the Labor Standards Act, these dispatched workers made a stand against their employers after a month-long negotiation with them fell apart. However, the employers had held their ground and refused to recognize that they were breaking the law, the unsettling situation fueled the controversies. The campaign thus turned and appealed for getting their compensation wages as well, they demonstrated the wage issue by consulting legislators, applying for labor inspection, applying third-party negotiations by local labor administrative, and holding press conference. After the campaign, the workers learned that they were in an exploiting outsourcing system, which held by civil servants in the government jointly. Yet during the campaign, these workers developed a different set of labor consciousness. This study documented this campaign and scrutinized the dynamical emergence of labor consciousness; furthermore, this study examined the context of that when a researcher who also leads a campaign for labor rights in the field. (Note: The study is solely in a context of a specific Taiwan labor situation and Mandarin language, please do not cite this study if this abstract is the only part of your reference to this study. The author does not recommend citing this study when you cannot adequately and properly utilize Mandarin.)