DIGITAL LABOR SOLIDARITIES, COLLECTIVE FORMATIONS, AND RELATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURES | Zendy

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DIGITAL LABOR SOLIDARITIES, COLLECTIVE FORMATIONS, AND RELATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURES

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Cheryll Ruth Soriano,

Rafael Grohmann,

Yujie Chen,

Athina Karatzogianni,

Jack Linchuan Qiu,

Jason Vincent A. Cabañes,

Paula Alves,

Andrija Dey

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

aoir selected papers of internet research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2162-3317

DOI - 10.5210/spir.v2020i0.11147

Subject(s) - solidarity , precarity , capitalism , china , sociology , resistance (ecology) , political science , political economy , politics , public relations , economic system , gender studies , economics , ecology , law , biology

The employment classification of platform workers has stirred global legislative, regulatory, and scholarly debates (Cherry, 2015; Prassl, 2018), as well as labor struggles and a new level of lobbying efforts from the tech industry. Look no further than the passage and the aftermath of California Assembly Bill 5. While the legal employment classification provides the “recognition” for the platform workers (Lee, 2019), the latters’ lived experience of the transformation of digital work (Cherry, 2015), especially concerning the localized politics, is largely underexplored in the growing number of studies on gig workers, platform labor, and so on. Through examining the app-based drivers in China, the paper aims to shed new light on the roles played by the localized politics in shaping the lives of

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