With markets concentrating predominantly in and around large cities, gig platforms across
the globe seem to depend as much on the cheap labor of migrants and minorities as on …

This study explores how Chinese riders game the algorithm-mediated governing system of
food delivery service platforms and how they mobilize WeChat to build solidarity networks to …

Location has historically been vital to a restaurant's success. However, in the past decade,
on-demand food delivery (ODFD) platforms like Meituan, Deliveroo, and Uber Eats have …

Food-delivery platform riders constitute a vulnerable population that is particularly
susceptible to safety incidents and injuries. At present, only a few studies have specifically …

Digital migration studies is research on migration in relation to digital technologies. As we1
explore in this book, research addresses the digitization of borders and the datafication of …

This paper critically examines the notion of working time flexibility of platform takeaway
riders and its impact on them in China. Drawing on 25 interviews with platform and takeaway …

This article adopts a labour process theory approach to analysing distinct circuits of labour
control in platform video game work in China, a novel manifestation of the platform economy …

The special issue,“Chinese Platforms and Entrepreneurial Labour,” examines
entrepreneurial labor and its relationship with the platformization of Chinese society and …

Posthuman is a social condition of humans losing control, especially to technological forces,
and a cultural framing beyond Enlightenment modernity. Building on the posthuman critique …

In recent years, China has witnessed the proliferation and success of the online food
delivery industry, an emerging type of the gig economy. Online food deliverers who deliver …