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Algorithmic antagonismalgorithmic control, precarity and resistance in China's food-delivery platform economy /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Algorithmic antagonismby Hui Huang.
Reminder of title:	algorithmic control, precarity and resistance in China's food-delivery platform economy /
Author:	Huang, Hui.
Published:	Singapore :Springer Nature Singapore :2025.
Description:	xiii, 183 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Food delivery servicesChina.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-95-2689-5
ISBN:	9789819526895$q(electronic bk.)

Algorithmic antagonismalgorithmic control, precarity and resistance in China's food-delivery platform economy /
Huang, Hui.

Algorithmic antagonismalgorithmic control, precarity and resistance in China's food-delivery platform economy /[electronic resource] :by Hui Huang. - Singapore :Springer Nature Singapore :2025. - xiii, 183 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm. - New perspectives on Chinese politics and society,2634-5412. - New perspectives on Chinese politics and society..

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.

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.

ISBN: 9789819526895$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-981-95-2689-5doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1005557
Food delivery services
--China.

LC Class. No.: TX945.45

Dewey Class. No.: 647.950951

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