Digital Work and Digital Workers in Europe and China

This book is a study of digital workers across China and Europe. It considers the shift of economic activity to online activity, examines increasing economic globalization that involves a new global division of labour, with novel forms of global capitalism, and emphasises the fact that increasingly work for many people is now digital work.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Chinese sociology of digital work 2. Labor, Digital Sociology and Globalization in Europe and in China 3. Digital Work and Economic Sociology in China 4. A Faceless System of Control - Delivery Platforms and Metropolises 5. The Analysis of Takeaway Riders' Employment Quality and Multiple Dilemmas They Are Facing in China 6. Digital Labor as Migrant Labor: Towards an Understanding of Digital Labor from Below 7. Digital Labor and the Life imaginations of Chinese Youth--The Adulthood Transition of Young Physical Workers in the Platform Economy 8. Digital Work, Digital Workers and Singularities in China and Europe 9. Digitized Familial Ties and Online Economies: Connected Migrant Entrepreneurs between China and Canada 10. The Digital Labor Process of Interns in Chinese Giant Digital Platform Enterprises 11. Emotional Digital Work and Transnational Bloggers on Chinese Social Media Platforms 12. From Local Protests to International Strategies. The Mobilisation of Platform Delivery Riders in France

About the author

Laurence Roulleau-Berger is Research Director at CNRS (Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique), Triangle, ENS (École Normal Supérieure), Lyon, France.
Wen Jun is Professor of Sociology and Social Work, Head of the Institute of Sociology, and Dean of the School of Social Development at East China Normal University, China and Co-Director of the NYU-ECNU Institute for Social Development at New York University, Shanghai, China.

Product details

• Assisted by: Wen Jun (Editor), Laurence Roulleau-Berger (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 15.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032658261
• ISBN: 978-1-032-65826-1
• No. of pages: 262
• Weight: 453 g
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Zeichnungen, schwarz-weiss, Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Series: China Policy Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); China, Canada, Europe, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, Society & culture: general, Information technology industries, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Personnel & human resources management, Sociology: work & labour, Society and culture: general, Personnel and human resources management, Sociology: work and labour, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General