Algorithmic Antagonism : Algorithmic Control, Precarity and Resistance in China's Food-Delivery Platform Economy / / by Hui Huang
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| Autore: |
Huang Hui
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| Titolo: |
Algorithmic Antagonism : Algorithmic Control, Precarity and Resistance in China's Food-Delivery Platform Economy / / by Hui Huang
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| Pubblicazione: | Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2025 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2025. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (0 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 330.95 |
| Soggetto topico: | Asia - Economic conditions |
| Technology - Sociological aspects | |
| Asia - Politics and government | |
| Asian Economics | |
| Science, Technology and Society | |
| Asian Politics | |
| Nota di contenuto: | Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Renewing Labour Process Theory in the Digital Workplace -- Chapter 3: Algorithmic Coercion: The Rational Control of Platform Labor -- Chapter 4: Algorithmic Hegemony: The Normative Control of Platform Labour -- Chapter 5: Platform Precarity of Food-Delivery Drivers -- Chapter 6: Riders on the Storm: Amplified Precarity during the Pandemic -- Chapter 7: Everyday Algorithmic Resistance -- Chapter 8: Delivering Collective Solidarity and The Role of TikTok -- Chapter 9: Conclusion. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This book provides a critical examination of how artificial intelligence and algorithmic management are transforming labour relations in the platform economy, with a focus on food-delivery workers in China. By combining ethnographic research with labour process theory, it reveals the hidden mechanisms of digital labour control and the ways workers resist algorithmic exploitation in an era of technological dominance. This book will interest scholars of the platform gig economy, of Chinese labor issues, and of the sociology of AI. Hui Huang is a Assistant Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Also, he is sociologist specializing in the work precarity, gig economy and digital labour. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Algorithmic Antagonism |
| ISBN: | 981-9526-89-2 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9911034949603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
New Perspectives on Chinese Politics and Society, . 2634-5412