This article explores whether and how labour law matters in factory workers’ grievances and demands in their letters sent to the unions and state authorities in Đồng Nai Province, an industrial hub in the south of Vietnam. An examination of the letters demonstrates that the legalistic language of rights and other provisions in the Labour Code plays little role in shaping workers’ accounts. A majority of letter writers instead referred to moral aspects of subsistence, reciprocity, and their subjective views of fairness to make their claims. Yet the moral constructions of workers’ claims may overlap and derive from values imbricated within the Labour Code. These observations raise the need to consider the subtle way in which law generates workers’ resistance against management and/or the state, as well as the fluid boundary between law and morality in workers’ narratives of (in)justice.

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越南工人信件中的劳动法和（不）正义

本文探讨了劳动法是否以及如何在工厂工人向越南南部工业中心 Đồng Nai 省的工会和国家当局发送的信件中表达不满和要求。对信件的审查表明，劳动法中关于权利和其他条款的法律语言在塑造工人账户方面几乎没有作用。相反，大多数信件作者提到了生存、互惠的道德方面以及他们对公平的主观看法来提出他们的主张。然而，工人诉求的道德建构可能会重叠并源自劳动法典中所包含的价值观。这些观察提出了需要考虑法律产生工人对管理和/或国家的抵抗的微妙方式，