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Digital Work and Digital Workers in Europe and China
About this book
This book is a study of digital workers across diverse contexts in China and Europe, giving valuable insight into their origins, abilities, and working conditions.
As the growth of digital work changes the nature of work and employment and the consequences of this for individual workers, this book considers the shift of much economic activity to online activity, examines increasing economic globalization that involves a new global division of labor, with novel forms of global capitalism, and emphasizes the fact that increasingly work for many people is now digital work. It highlights the consequences of this shift, which include the casualization of work, new subaltern labor, and the precarity of employment contracts – whether as self-employment or digital wage – and the relations between digital work, globalization, and emotional capitalism. It discusses how new forms of labor exploitation and how individual and collective mobilizations are emerging, how specific groups such as migrants are especially vulnerable, and how these new forms of capitalism and of working are leading to a rearrangement of the geographical structure of the world economy, with notable consequences for Asia and other non-Western regions.
Broadening the global understanding of the evolving nature of work in the digital age, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of the sociology of work and economic sociology, as well as digital sociology.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Author Biographies
- Introduction
- 1 Chinese Sociology of Digital Work
- 2 Labor, Digital Sociology, and Globalization in Europe and China
- 3 Digital Work and Economic Sociology in China
- 4 A Faceless System of Control: Delivery Platforms and Metropolises
- 5 The Analysis of Takeaway Riders’ Employment Quality and Multiple Dilemmas They Are Facing in China
- 6 Digital labor as migrant labor: Toward an understanding of digital labor from below
- 7 Digital Labor and the Life Imaginations of Chinese Youth: The Adulthood Transition of Young Physical Workers in the Platform Economy
- 8 Digital Work, Digital Workers, and Singularities in China and Europe
- 9 Digitised Familial Ties and Online Economies: Connected Migrant Entrepreneurs between China and Canada
- 10 The Digital Labor Process of Interns in Chinese Giant Digital Platform Enterprises
- 11 Emotional Digital Work and Transnational Bloggers on Chinese Social Media Platforms
- 12 From Local Protests to International Strategies: The Mobilisation of Platform Delivery Riders in France
- Index