Buy with 1-Click: Independent Contracting and Migrant Workers in China’s Last-Mile Delivery

Jenny Chan

Buy with 1-Click: Independent Contracting and Migrant Workers in China’s Last-Mile Delivery

Department of Applied Social Sciences

Research output: Chapter in book / Conference proceeding › Chapter in an edited book (as author) › Academic research › peer-review

Abstract

With an eye on speedups of production and circulation in our
digital economy, this chapter looks into the booming Chinese express delivery
sector through the lens of the intersection of class, gender, and migrant labor.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Global Labor Migration
Subtitle of host publication	New Directions
Editors	Eileen Boris, Heidi Gottfried, Julie Greene, Joo-Cheong Tham
Place of Publication	Champaign, IL
Publisher	University of Illinois Press
Chapter	8
Pages	152-168
Number of pages	17
Edition	1st ed
ISBN (Electronic)	978-0-252-05374-0
ISBN (Print)	978-0-252-08679-3
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2023

Publication series

Name	Studies of World Migrations
Publisher	University of Illinois Press

Keywords

Digital economy
platform-mediated labor
China
Alibaba
SF Express
Distribution
Production
Consumption

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