作为新兴职业群体的快递小哥,纵然与现代商业有关,也使用现代化的工具,其实仍是传统苦力在现代社会的延伸。虽然他们的从业动机和出路选择多样,但他们的行为仍是基于满足生存需求、扩展生存空间和追求体力资本经济利益最大化的理性选择。研究发现,作为绝大多数是新生代农民工的快递小哥,仍处在生存理性的阶段,并未实现理性跨越。对于大多数的快递小哥而言,职业的非长久性和农民工身份的边缘性让他们的发展陷入困境,但仍有不少人将其视作寻求生存过渡性的最佳选择。面对这个困局,不仅快递小哥自身要努力突破瓶颈,而且政府、社会和企业也应在规范行业准则、提高薪资福利待遇、完善技能培训体系和维护群体合法权益等方面采取一些措施,以帮助他们缓解职业发展上的困境,为在市场化进程中处于弱势地位的快递小哥长久发展提供制度基础及必要的公共产品。 As a new career group express little brother, even with the modern business-related, but also the use of modern tools, in fact, is still an extension of the traditional coolie in modern society. Although their motives and choices are diverse, their behavior is still based on the rational choice of satisfying the survival needs, expanding the living space and pursuing the maximization of the economic benefits of physical capital. The study found that as the vast majority of courier younger generation of migrant workers is still living in a rational stage, did not achieve rational leap. For most courier little brother, the non-permanent occupation and the marginalization of migrant workers put their development in trouble, but there are still many people think of it as the transition to find the best choice for survival. In the face of this dilemma, not only express small brother to strive to break through the bottleneck itself, but also the government, society and enterprises should take some measures to standardize industry guidelines, improve salary and benefits, improve skills training system and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of groups Help them to alleviate the predicament of career development and provide the institutional basis and necessary public products for the long-term development of express brother who is in a disadvantaged position in the marketization process.