"新工人"与"新穷人"同是资本主义经济从工业经济向金融资本、从实物经济向虚拟经济过渡中的产物，共同构成了"穷人"概念的两面：前者是资本主义生产过程的产物，后者则是消费社会和消费文化的伴生物。新工人群体在政治领域的沉默状态是当代中国政治生活的最重要的特征之一。

Abstract：Key concepts that formed the politics of dignity in 20th-century China， e.g. class or class-based political parties and related political categories， have been or are being replaced by the concept of modernization centered on “development…