国外社会升级研究进展及对中国的启示

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Abstract The rise of social upgrading research has been stimulated by the emerging fact that economic upgrading driven by economic globalization failed to concurrently bring about social upgrading. It is also an academic response to the goal of Decent Work and Economic Growth as the 8^th one of the UN's 2030 Sustainable Development Goal. Much attention has been paid to economic upgrading in domestic geographies with rare concern on social upgrading. To fix this gap and promote social upgrading research in China, this paper reviews the research on social upgrading in international academic communities by examining its concept, theoretical basis and key research topics. It is argued that although the current research on social upgrading has been in the ascendant, the key question on how social upgrading can occur has not been fully theorized. The paper concludes by discussing implications for social upgrading research in China, calling for the research on regional patterns of social upgrading, geographical coupling processes of social upgrading factors, and informal workers. Efforts need to be invested to explore institutional arrangements helpful for social upgrading to solve the problem of uneven development in the process of economic marketization in China.

Key words： social upgrading decent work labor geography global production networks high-quality development

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HUANG Geng-zhi,ZHOU Jin. A REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH ON SOCIAL UPGRADING AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR CHINA[J]. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2021, 36(3): 15-23,107.

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