Security Capital in the Field of Work: A Bourdieuian Perspective on Precarity and Social Inequality
本文基于布迪厄的场域与资本理论，提出“安全资本”概念，通过就业型、公民身份型和具身型三个指标衡量工作不稳定程度，并揭示其再生产机制及与国家的关系，有助于理解社会不平等。
Drawing on Bourdieu’s theories of field and capital, this article proposes the concept of security capital for a better understanding of precarity in the field of work. Three indicators are put forward to characterise the level of precarity – employment-based security capital, citizenship-based security capital and embodied security capital. Additionally, the notion of security capital stresses the reproduction of precarity, an important case of precarisation, and this article provides two important mechanisms underlying this process – the embodiment of precarity and the conversion between security capital and other forms of capital. Moreover, the Bourdieuian perspective on the state and its relations with security capital sheds light on how people can mobilise the state to shift neoliberal policymaking and safeguard labour security.