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From Harmony to Dispute :Analysis of Labor Disputes and Their Influencing
Factors at the Commercial Press (1897—1949)

  

  1. School of Information Technology in Education,South China Normal University
  • Received:2024-11-14 Revised:2025-06-04 Online:2025-07-29 Published:2025-07-29

Abstract:

The emergence of workers’ class consciousness and the growing sense of “relative deprivation”, the strong organizational power of the Commercial Press Labor Union and Employees’ Unions, the sympathy and encouragement from external social forces, as well as the cycles of prosperity and austerity in the company’ s operations—these were key factors that transformed labor relations at the Commercial Press from initial harmony to persistent conflicts. The influences behind these labor disputes were highly complex, stemming both from external pressures and the internal dynamics of the enterprise. The dominant factors varied across different periods, giving rise to distinct phases in the labor-management landscape of the Commercial Press. Unlike the conventional perception of strikes as resistance against oppression, the labor issues at the Commercial Press primarily manifested as a series of disputes centered on rights advocacy and interest negotiation.

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