CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Qiu, Zhitian |
|---|---|
| Title | Factory Regime of Duty Contractor under Platform Capitalism: an Example of Chinese Logistics Industry |
| Summary | In this thesis, by doing ethnographic fieldwork at two courier stations, I put forward a concept of factory regime of duty contractor to better understand the production politics of informality in the third-party logistics companies under the demand of the booming platform economy. As pointed out by Burawoy(1985), the factory regime should be examined with regards to four factors: labour process, reproduction of labour power, market competitions among firms and the state intervention. Within the framework composed of these four dimension, I examine the production politics in the courier sector and conclude that: first, as a result of the fierce market competition, intention to lower the labour cost and the characteristics of the work itself, the courier worker is organized by the capital both as an employee and a contractor, which indicated the tension of lose labour control and intensified labour control ; secondly, the first point may contribute to the discussion of the separation of execution and conception work in an informal work sector; thirdly, such a concept indicates a self-motivated and self-responsible ideology; fourthly, the state’s public governance may have a direct impact on the worker’s condition, so as to the factory regime. The state intervention of an authoritarian regime, in the case of courier sector, maybe the key factor to trigger the collective resistance of the workers. |
| Supervisor | Ju Li |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/qiu_zhitian.pdf |
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