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Two tales of platform regimes in China's food-delivery platform economy
Haitao Wei1, Luyang Zhang1, Peipei Deng1
1School of Sociology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China.
Abstract:
This article brings the often-overlooked concept of the labor regime back to the study of China's food-delivery platform workers. Two tales of platform regimes emerge: individualized platform despotism and bureaucratized platform despotism, which apply to crowdsourcing couriers and dedicated delivery couriers, respectively. This study compares these two types of platform regimes in terms of their institutional foundation and labor organization. Despite different institutional arrangements and labor organization, both types of food-delivery couriers belong to a despotic platform regime revealing workers' subordination to the platform. In conclusion, it discusses the implications and limitations of this study.
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