Network labour and non-elite knowledge workers in China

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21189673
AutoresJ L Qiu (0000-0001-9950-1267, autor de correspondencia), Jack Linchuan Qiu Jack Linchuan Qiu
Año2010
Volumen4
Número2
Fecha de publicación2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaWork Organisation Labour & Globalisation (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1745-641X • E-ISSN: 1745-6428
EditorialPluto Journals (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.13169/workorgalaboglob.4.2.0080
OpenAlexW2754175827
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas12

This paper offers a preliminary analysis of Chinese non-elite knowledge workers, their use of information technologies as tools of employment as well as worker organisation, and the emergent process of network labour formation. It opens by presenting a conceptual framework for understanding non-elite knowledge workers, their social contexts, types, and the interrelationships among these types, paying special attention to new types of digital work (call centres, SMS authoring, and online game gold farming), their process of emergence and patterns of spatial distribution. It then sketches out the main linkages between grassroots workers’ groups in mainland China and labour organisations outside showing that, even though bottom-up transnational labour organisation is still quite limited at the present stage, informal networking through new digital tools is full of potential. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications for a new informational politics

Business · China · Conceptual framework · Elite · Grassroots · Knowledge management · Knowledge worker · Mainland China · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social network analysis · Social science · Sociology · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Computer Science · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Employment and Welfare Studies · Engineering