The Preservation of Industrial Heritage in the Process of Privation of Taiwan Tobacco and Wine Board︰the Protection of the Workers’Right of Working in Taipei Jianguo Brewery
Date Issued
2007
Date
2007
Author(s)
Pan, Hsin-jung
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
This thesis attempts to explore the meaning of industry's heritage and the right of working by focusing on the example of the workers’struggle of Jianguo Brewery while it was planed to be closed. The thesis will analyze the impact of privatization on the industry’s heritage and the right of working, in order to grasp deeper the theoretical implication of class through the case of industrial heritage of Jianguo Brewery. Furthermore, the study may provide the helpful reference for the future development of workers’ self-conscious power and activists of industry’s heritage.
In 1994, in order to re-joint into the GATT(later WTO), Taiwan government complied with request of WTO on the policy of opening market and privatization as the trend of gobalization. Thus, the profit of previously national bureau, Taiwan Tobacco and Wine Board, drop hugely after the market was opened, and the bureau was forced to became an enterprise and turn to privatization so as to meet the challenge of free market. It is under this situation that Jianguo Brewery faced the crises of closing the factory, merging into other factory, as well as the layoff of workers.
At that time, the workers of Jianguo Brewery of Taiwan Tobacco and Wine Board took two strategies for their struggle. The first one was to preserve the industrial heritage, helped by Le-Shan Cultural and Educational Foundation and some other people of cultural activities. It is to preserve the factory building which was built in 1919 so as to preserve the production line on the site of industrial heritage; in other words, to designate the factory of Jianguo Brewery as the cultural relics. The second one is to protect the right of working, i.e., while workers lose their jobs, they could struggle for their job through the struggle and negotiation. And the workers of Jianguo Brewery combined these two strategies to struggle for the production line in order to protect their right of working.
However, in the process of privatization, while profit as the guideline, the new private capital changed the policy of preserving the jobs for workers as the primary concern even which may lead to decreasing the profit. Furthermore, the private capital even adopts the method of preserving the industrial heritage so as to increase the profit. Yet, workers’ right of working is thus precluded.
After all, could the preservation of industrial heritage resist to the pressure of privatization? Could it preserve the workers jobs totally and their complete labor process? And what kind of role that the workers will play who have participated into the activities of preserving the industrial heritage? Based on the above argument, the discussion of the two discourses of “living preservation of industrial heritage”and“preservation of the complete labor process“, one may ask which one could both protect the right of working and preserve the factory and machines, the productive factors, at the same time?
Finally, the basic presumption of inquiring into the living preservation of industrial culture has to be based on the protection of the right of working. Only in this situation, we may preserve working-class daily life, the living class-consciousness, which is the real basis of workers’ culture.
Subjects
私有化
產業遺產
古蹟保存
階級意識
工作權
Privatization
Historic Conservation
Jianguo Brewery
Industrial Culture
Class-consciousness
the Right of Working
Type
thesis
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