臺灣博碩士論文加值系統

本篇論文企圖自全球化經濟環境對低階層女性勞工的觀點著手，將阿里的《磚巷》視為一本全球化小說。本篇論文強調阿里如何以低階層女性勞工的奮鬥作為縮影，展開她對全球化經濟背後不公義現象的論述。另一方面也探討造成低階女性勞工經濟表現疲弱的成因與現象，試圖論證低階層女性勞工正是全球化時代下的弱勢族群。
以全球化經濟為基石分析阿里之小說，本論文共分五章。第一章為導論。第二章以性別差異和社會階級為面向，檢視小說中低階層女性勞工揮之不去的弱勢包袱。在阿里極其寫實的書寫之中，性別的歧視與社經地位決定了低階層女性勞工雙重的邊緣化地位，尤以開發中或低度開發國家甚之。第三章以奧斯卡˙劉易士的貧窮文化理論分析低階層女性勞工的先天劣勢。在低度開發社會中，貧窮文化代表阻撓低階層女性勞工們自我發展的絆腳石。在小說中，低階層女性勞工們受父權思想影響、宰制，以全然被動順服的態度處事。對低階層女性勞工來說，命運決定她們的一生，阿里以低階女性勞工無聲領受的形象為中心，展現低階女性勞工在貧窮文化影響下受限的未來發展。第四章轉向探討低階女性勞工在雙重邊緣化、先天劣勢影響之下可能的發展性。雖然先天劣勢對低階女性勞工的弱勢
造成影響，本章試圖論證不同的地域亦帶給低階女性勞工某種程度上的轉變，影響低階女性勞工發展其因應措施，在強勢的全球化經濟底下求生存。第五章為結論，綜結前章所述論點，並期待以此論文，向全球化經濟底下無名的低階女性勞工致敬。

The thesis intends to read Monica Ali’s Brick Lane as a novel of contemporary scenes in relation to female laborers, focusing on how the lower-class female laborers in the context of global economy behave themselves in Ali’s writing. Besides, this thesis attempts to analyze the cause and effect of the economic performance of female laborers, arguing that, in the era of economic globalization, the lower-class female laborers are marginalized as the minority group.
To read lower-class female laborers in the context of global economy, the thesis consists of five chapters. Chapter one is an introduction, while Chapter two clarifies the status quo of female laborers twofold, indicating that gender bias and labor division bring the inescapable pitfalls of the lower-class female laborers. In her realistic yet vivid writings, Ali instructs her readers to experience the discriminated positions that female laborers are situated, and the uneven conditions caused by the biological and the social determinism on female laborers, especially those who grow up in the developing or underdeveloped societies.
In Chapter three, Oscar Lewis’s culture of poverty is employed to emphasize the disabilities that the lower-class female laborers suffer. The traits of the culture of poverty play a vital role to hinder female laborers from progressing. The female laborers are instilled with the dogma of obedience, and abide by the traditional arrangement of fate, which is deprived of the future of female laborers. Alienated from the outside world, the lower-class female laborers, influenced by their cultural roots, are probably left behind the world economy.
Chapter four draws attention to the possibility of female laborers’ changing agency, which is conducive to (re)constructing their economic roles. The social positioning along with the culture of poverty is decisive to female laborers’ development. The social positioning and the culture of poverty, intertwined with each other, provide female laborers with their preference and performance. Besides, the diverse social positioning involves the distinctive motivations and conceptions toward their own agency, which, in a different strategy, furthermore promises their survival. Chapter five is the conclusion, concluding all the aspects posed in the previous chapters. The thesis, with the ultimate respects to those lower-class female laborers in economic globalization, attempts to arouse the public attention to those no-name heroines.

Chapter One:
Introduction………………………………………………………………1
I. Introducing Monica Ali and Brick Lane………………………………………….1
II. The World of Labor………………………………………………………………4
III. Economic Globalization and Female Labor……………………………………6
A. Feminization and Labor…………………………………………………………9
B. Culture of Poverty and Female Labor………………………………………...12
C. Social Positioning and Female Labor…………………………………………..15
IV. The Methodology and Thesis Organization…………………………………...18

Chapter Two:
The Inequality of Female Labor: Labor and Feminization……………...22
I. Gender, the Original Burden of Lower-Class Female Labor…………….…….23
II. Exploitation from the Well-Being Sister of Lower-Class Female Labor……..32
III. The Encounter of Lower-Class Female Laborers with the Hostile Work Places…………………………………………………………………………...36

Chapter Three:
The Unchangeable Roots of Female Labor: The Culture of Poverty and Female Labor……………………………………………………………39
I. Endurance, All in the Life of Lower-Class Female Labor……………………..43
II. Fate, the Hand at the Back of Lower-Class Female Labor…………………...49

Chapter Four:
The Pursuit of Possibilities within Limited Plight: Social Positioning and Female Labor……………………………………………………………57
I. The Possibility of Agency Changing……………………………………………..61
II. Different Positions, Diverse Motivations……………………………………….69
III. The Tenacity to Develop Survival Strategies………………………………….74

Chapter Five:
Conclusion………………………………………………………………82

Works Cited……………………………………………………………..87

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