2021
DOI: 10.4000/chinaperspectives.11268
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Editorial – Precarity, Platforms, and Agency: The Multiplication of Chinese Labour

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“…The tradition of the HK government’s minimal intervention in employment relations, and a disciplined workforce, have enabled the ascent of gig platforms (Redding et al, 2014). Gig work and platforms in this sense are decoupled from the regulatory contexts, which echoes the disembedding thesis (Urban, 2019; Wood et al, 2019a) that can also be observed in mainland China (Chan et al, 2021). In addition, the gig competition, grounded in digital technologies, appears to go beyond the existing temporal–spatial limits of recruitment.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 54%
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“…The tradition of the HK government’s minimal intervention in employment relations, and a disciplined workforce, have enabled the ascent of gig platforms (Redding et al, 2014). Gig work and platforms in this sense are decoupled from the regulatory contexts, which echoes the disembedding thesis (Urban, 2019; Wood et al, 2019a) that can also be observed in mainland China (Chan et al, 2021). In addition, the gig competition, grounded in digital technologies, appears to go beyond the existing temporal–spatial limits of recruitment.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 54%
“…Second, this research empirically synthesises the analysis of gig workers from different skill levels in HK as a non-Western context, pushing the boundary of platform labour research. For further research on gig work, the platform economy and digital infrastructures in the Chinese contexts (Chan et al, 2021; Pun, this issue), the question of how HK’s varieties of embeddedness are situated in China’s infrastructural capitalism should be answered.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Further examining Zhang and Qiong's stories and similar experiences and concerns regarding health conditions, employment stability, and financial security shared by other informants, it is prominent that precarity has become an important context to shape the understanding and practices of friendship among migrant workers. The migrant workers examined here were all in the service sector, which is generally informal and precarious in China (Chan, Florence and Qiu, 2021). For example, Qiong worked at a Karaoke bar as a waitress before losing her first job.…”
Section: [About My Difficulties] As I Don't Want My Families To Worry...mentioning
confidence: 99%