“民工潮”,打工族矣。翻开80年代初出版的《现代汉语词典),中国社会科学院语言研究所的专家们是这样注释“民工”一词的:在政府的动员或号召下,参加修筑公路、堤坝或帮助军队运输等工作的人。然而,今天芸芸打工仔、打工妹们,无论规模、流向,还是供职、价值取向,已不是昔日“民工”的传统概念。或许,正是由于第一印象效应,或许因为“民工潮”利敝皆存,使我们这个希望民工流动,但真正流动起来又准备不足的社会一片哗然,沸沸扬扬,亦喜亦忧。一、“民工潮”功不可没 “Migrant workers tide”, working people carry on. Turning to the Modern Chinese Dictionary published in the early 1980s, experts from the Institute of Language of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences commented on the term “migrant workers” by participating in road construction, embankment or military transport, etc., mobilized or called upon by the government employees. However, today’s wage-earners and wage-earners are no longer traditional concepts of “migrant workers” in the past, no matter their size, direction or service. Perhaps it is precisely because of the first impression that the “migrant workers tide” may exist all around us, causing our hope of migrant workers to move. However, there is an uproar and an uproar in the society that is truly fluid and under-prepared. First, “migrant workers boom” contributed