Dates and Times
09 October 2019
12:30 - 13:30
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Location
Organiser
News & Media Research Centre
Speakers
Dr Sohpie Ping Sun
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Platformization and Flexible Labor: An Exploration of Takeaway Couriers in China
In the past 5 years, China has experienced a neck-breaking development in its digitisation and platformisation. In this process of platformisation, millions of previous migrant workers have become flexible laborers. Based on one and a half years' ethnographic fieldwork and a survey of 1399 delivery workers in Beijing, this seminar will explore the labor conditions of courier workers at China's take-away platforms as well as their agency, subjectivity and empowerment. It demonstrates that digital labor in contemporary China is never a unified pattern, and couriers' work has become both more accessible and precarious within the process of platformisation and digitisation. Join us to hear more on platformatisation and flexible labor.
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