1927-1937年上海童工的收入与消费研究

Study on Shangshai Child Labour's Income and Consumption from 1927 to 1937

二十世纪二三十年代,上海城市处于从传统向现代迈进的剧烈变革时期,亟需大量廉价工商业劳动力,一些家庭经济窘迫的儿童沦为童工,从事体力劳动以换取微薄的工资来赡养家庭。童工消费从属于其家庭消费,主要集中在以满足温饱为目标的食品等领域,教育和娱乐等发展性和享受性消费所占份额较少,但反映出童工日常消费中的现代取向。上海大量童工的存在以及他们的收入与消费都和这一时期上海城市从传统到现代的社会转型密切相关。

In the 1920s and 30s, Shanghai city was in a period of dramatic change from traditional to modem, it need lots of cheap commercial labour, Some children lost the opportunity in education whose family was in economic depression, they descended to child labour, engaging in physical labor to exchange meager wages to support a family. Child labor consumption belonged to the family consumption, mainly concentrated in the food and clothing to meet the fundamental target,the development and enjoyment of consumption such as education and entertainment shared less, but reflected the modem orientation in child labor＇s daily consumption. The large number of child labor and their income and consumption in this period closely related to the transformation that Shanghai city changed from traditional to modem society.