Precarious knowledge workers in China’s social transformation—a study of editors in the Chinese publishing industry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13059658 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jianhua Yao (0000-0002-0980-705X, Fudan University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2017-04-18 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Chinese Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2198-2635 • E-ISSN: 2198-2635 |
| Publisher | Springer Nature (PUBLISHER • SG) |
| DOI | 10.1186/s40711-017-0053-6 |
| OpenAlex | W2607250552 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 18 |
Contributing to contemporary studies on knowledge workers, this paper aims to conceptualize the four critical challenges for editors in the Chinese publishing industry under the framework of political economy. These challenges, as a result of fundamental social changes, including technological, political and economic ones, and, most importantly, changes in class relations and power dynamics are the following: challenges related to technological change, challenges of how to follow the political principle in the media marketization process, challenges brought about by the smashing of the work-unit system, and challenges resulting from internal divisions within knowledge workers. Moreover, by incorporating findings discovered in the case studies of two publishing houses in Shanghai, this paper addresses the wider social relationship between communication and the institutional power structure in which editors, and knowledge workers in general, are situated
China · Knowledge economy · Marketization · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Public relations · Publishing · Situated · Social science · Sociology · Unit (ring theory · Work (physics · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Engineering · Law
From Organized Dependence to Disorganized Despotism
Case Study Research
The Political Economy of Communication
Labor and Monopoly Capital
From Commercialization to Conglomeration
Changing media, changing China
The Coming of the Post-Industrial Society
Nice Work If You Can Get It
The Rise of the Network Society
Knowledge Workers of the World! Unite
De-skilling Effects on Journalists
Knowledge Workers of the World! Unite
An intermediary
Chinese Media, Global Contexts
Qualitative research methods for the social sciences
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2022 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |