Meng Quan
Biographic Data
| ID | 6737294 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Meng Quan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Meng |
| FAMILY NAME | Quan |
| SIGNATURE | QUAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | China University of Labor Relations |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-9269-7720 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Managing Mobility: Platform Work Models, Organizational Identification, and Food Delivery Couriers' Exit Intentions
Despite flexibility being central to the gig economy, platform businesses face challenges balancing operational needs with labor mobility. Through empirical analysis of China’s food delivery platforms, this study finds that professionally oriented couriers in the outsourced model, while viewing platform work as a steppingstone to formal employment and exhibiting higher exit intentions, simultaneously develop stronger organizational identification…
Unregulated Flexibility and the Multiplication of Labour: Work in the Chinese Platform Economy
The global labour market is witnessing an increase in non‐standard employment, and China is no exception, albeit with distinct socio‐political dynamics. This research explores the variation of employment relations in China’s platform economy and discusses how the various types of precarious employment are generated and developed in post‐socialist China. Based on interviews with platform company managers and platform food delivery workers in China…
Taming Labor: Workers' Struggles, Workplace Unionism, and Collective Bargaining on a Chinese Waterfront
This article examines the case of the Yantian International Container Terminal (YICT) to consider under what conditions unions can provide effective workplace representation in China. The authors draw on semi-structured interviews to analyze how and why the union was effective, despite rigid prohibitions against organizing outside of the Party-led All-China Federation of Trade Unions. The authors argue that the YICT union developed a system of an…
Dockworkers’ Resistance and Union Reform within China’s Globalised Seaport Industry
This study examines the prominent 2013 Yantian dock strike in China and analyses the main factors contributing to the dockers’ successful campaign. It finds that the dockers’ capacity to take strike action mainly derives from their bargaining power, including structural power such as workplace bargaining power and logistical power, and their institutional power such as workers’ sense of moral power. More importantly, the event shows that the exte…
Political Space in the Achievement of Collective Labour Rights: Interaction between Regional Government and Workers' Protest
The year 2010 witnessed the outbreak of a series of strikes in Guangdong's automobile industry, with the first strike in Foshan Honda, which attracted the most attention. Many argue that Honda workers' collective action is a transitional signal indicating the start of a new era of Chinese workers' collective protest. The success of the subsequent workplace union re-election and collective bargaining seems to indicate the workers' achievement of c…
Taming Labor: Workers' Struggles, Workplace Unionism, and Collective Bargaining on a Chinese Waterfront
This article examines the case of the Yantian International Container Terminal (YICT) to consider under what conditions unions can provide effective workplace representation in China. The authors draw on semi-structured interviews to analyze how and why the union was effective, despite rigid prohibitions against organizing outside of the Party-led All-China Federation of Trade Unions. The authors argue that the YICT union developed a system of an…
Dockworkers’ Resistance and Union Reform within China’s Globalised Seaport Industry
This study examines the prominent 2013 Yantian dock strike in China and analyses the main factors contributing to the dockers’ successful campaign. It finds that the dockers’ capacity to take strike action mainly derives from their bargaining power, including structural power such as workplace bargaining power and logistical power, and their institutional power such as workers’ sense of moral power. More importantly, the event shows that the exte…
Political Space in the Achievement of Collective Labour Rights: Interaction between Regional Government and Workers' Protest
The year 2010 witnessed the outbreak of a series of strikes in Guangdong's automobile industry, with the first strike in Foshan Honda, which attracted the most attention. Many argue that Honda workers' collective action is a transitional signal indicating the start of a new era of Chinese workers' collective protest. The success of the subsequent workplace union re-election and collective bargaining seems to indicate the workers' achievement of c…
Unregulated Flexibility and the Multiplication of Labour: Work in the Chinese Platform Economy
The global labour market is witnessing an increase in non‐standard employment, and China is no exception, albeit with distinct socio‐political dynamics. This research explores the variation of employment relations in China’s platform economy and discusses how the various types of precarious employment are generated and developed in post‐socialist China. Based on interviews with platform company managers and platform food delivery workers in China…
Political Space in the Achievement of Collective Labour Rights: Interaction between Regional Government and Workers' Protest
The year 2010 witnessed the outbreak of a series of strikes in Guangdong's automobile industry, with the first strike in Foshan Honda, which attracted the most attention. Many argue that Honda workers' collective action is a transitional signal indicating the start of a new era of Chinese workers' collective protest. The success of the subsequent workplace union re-election and collective bargaining seems to indicate the workers' achievement of c…
Dockworkers’ Resistance and Union Reform within China’s Globalised Seaport Industry
This study examines the prominent 2013 Yantian dock strike in China and analyses the main factors contributing to the dockers’ successful campaign. It finds that the dockers’ capacity to take strike action mainly derives from their bargaining power, including structural power such as workplace bargaining power and logistical power, and their institutional power such as workers’ sense of moral power. More importantly, the event shows that the exte…
Taming Labor: Workers' Struggles, Workplace Unionism, and Collective Bargaining on a Chinese Waterfront
This article examines the case of the Yantian International Container Terminal (YICT) to consider under what conditions unions can provide effective workplace representation in China. The authors draw on semi-structured interviews to analyze how and why the union was effective, despite rigid prohibitions against organizing outside of the Party-led All-China Federation of Trade Unions. The authors argue that the YICT union developed a system of an…
Unregulated Flexibility and the Multiplication of Labour: Work in the Chinese Platform Economy
The global labour market is witnessing an increase in non‐standard employment, and China is no exception, albeit with distinct socio‐political dynamics. This research explores the variation of employment relations in China’s platform economy and discusses how the various types of precarious employment are generated and developed in post‐socialist China. Based on interviews with platform company managers and platform food delivery workers in China…
Managing Mobility: Platform Work Models, Organizational Identification, and Food Delivery Couriers' Exit Intentions
Despite flexibility being central to the gig economy, platform businesses face challenges balancing operational needs with labor mobility. Through empirical analysis of China’s food delivery platforms, this study finds that professionally oriented couriers in the outsourced model, while viewing platform work as a steppingstone to formal employment and exhibiting higher exit intentions, simultaneously develop stronger organizational identification…
Economics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · China (3 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (3 works) · Collective bargaining (3 works) · Industrial Relations (3 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Market economy (3 works) · Political economy (3 works)