近代中国都市苦力帮略论

Brief Review of Urban Cooly Clans in Modern China

与行会存在于手工业劳动者中的状况不同,帮口是近代普遍存在于都市非熟练技术的苦力工种中的下层社会组织。都市苦力帮的组织简单,没有成文的帮规。苦力既依赖苦力帮,又受其控制。都市苦力帮既是近代都市苦力同乡的集合体,又是残酷生活的反映,还是同乡反对外乡的组织。

Different from the guild among handicraft workers,the coolly clans are low-level organizations which commonly exist among unskilled coolie workers in cities of modern China. Urban cooly clans often have simple organization and no written rules.Coolies are often reliant on the Clans,and meanwhile controlled by them.The Cooly clans are not only groups of cooly fellows,but also organizations in which coolies from different places fight against each other and reflection of the cruelty of life.