The rise of odd-job economy makes the protection of workers’ rights and interests become the core issue of grassroots governance. The existing research focuses on the deconstruction of labor relations by digital technology, but relatively ignores the dynamic response mechanism of grassroots social support networks in coping with institutional fragility and building workers’ resilience. Based on the theory of social ecosystem, this study constructs a three-level analysis framework of “institutional environment-community network-individual action” to reveal the co-evolution law of grassroots social support networks. The core findings are as follows: first, the failure of community delivery of social insurance and the lack of self-organization ability of odd-job workers constitute a “dual system vulnerability”, which directly leads to the absence of occupational injury protection; Secondly, community embedded organizations build resilience mechanism through the triple paths of resource integration, relationship mobilization and norm remolding, in which the community network with strong relationship redundancy can significantly improve the anti-risk efficiency; Thirdly, the degree of institutional coordination between grass-roots trade unions and community service centers significantly affects the threshold of system resilience. When the two form a closed loop of service supply, the success rate of workers’ rights and interests appeal is greatly improved. This study further puts forward the “community resilience ladder” model, explains the realization path of the modernization of grassroots governance from three dimensions: network density, system coupling and action efficiency, and provides an analytical framework with both theoretical depth and practical significance for improving the protection system of workers’ rights and interests.
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Yang, Y. (2025) Research on Resilience Construction of Social Support Network for Casual Workers from the Perspective of Grass-roots Governance. Journal of Social Development and History, 1(3), 10-18.