Contract Workers Are Not Lower Than Others

Abstract

In the past few years, some enterprises have recruited a number of contract workers under ownership by the whole people or collective ownership. This is an important item in the reform of China's worker recruitment system introduced after the Third Plenum of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party in 1978. At present, various forms of recruitment exist in China. There are permanent workers, contract workers, and odd-job workers. Compared with employing workers on a permanent basis, the form of contract workers obviously has its advantages. The greatest advantage is that it has done away with the drawbacks arising from the former practice of "getting a lifelong job after one examination," having an "iron rice bowl," and "everybody eating from the same big pot." In this way it has enabled the relations of production to be better suited to the development of the productive forces and given full expression to the superiority of the socialist worker recruitment system.