Zachary Gan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674130 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zachary Gan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zachary |
| FAMILY NAME | Gan |
| SIGNATURE | GAN Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-5299-6757 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Rethinking Platform Capitalism
The authors examine how platform companies structure labor control in the food-delivery sector by comparing two major apps operating in the United States and Canada: Uber Eats and Fantuan. Although existing research on algorithmic management emphasizes the emergence of “algorithmic despotism”—opaque, data-driven systems that shape worker behavior through surveillance, nudges, and individualized pay schemes—there is a need to map out the variation…
Between Marxism and New Materialism
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Between Marxism and New Materialism
Rethinking Platform Capitalism
The authors examine how platform companies structure labor control in the food-delivery sector by comparing two major apps operating in the United States and Canada: Uber Eats and Fantuan. Although existing research on algorithmic management emphasizes the emergence of “algorithmic despotism”—opaque, data-driven systems that shape worker behavior through surveillance, nudges, and individualized pay schemes—there is a need to map out the variation…
Automation (1 work) · Control (management) (1 work) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (1 work) · Emotional Labor in Professions (1 work) · Ethnography (1 work) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (1 work) · Key (lock) (1 work) · Order (exchange) (1 work) · Organizational structure (1 work) · Participant observation (1 work)