Two tales of platform regimes in China’s food-delivery platform economy  

作　　者：Haitao Wei Luyang Zhang Peipei Deng Guohui Li 

机构地区：[1]School of Sociology,Central China Normal University,Wuhan,China

出　　处：《The Journal of Chinese Sociology》2022年第1期241-256,共16页中国社会学杂志（英文）

基　　金：“The Study on Embeddedness of Platform Workers and Their Social Protection under the Background of Internet Economy(National Social Science Funding 21CSH034).”。

摘　　要：This article brings the often-overlooked concept of the labor regime back to the study of China’s food-delivery platform workers.Two tales of platform regimes emerge:individualized platform despotism and bureaucratized platform despotism,which apply to crowdsourcing couriers and dedicated delivery couriers,respectively.This study compares these two types of platform regimes in terms of their institutional foundation and labor organization.Despite different institutional arrangements and labor organization,both types of food-delivery couriers belong to a despotic platform regime revealing workers’subordination to the platform.In conclusion,it discusses the implications and limitations of this study.

关 键 词：Platform despotism Food-delivery platform Couriers Platform regime China 

分 类 号：TS201[轻工技术与工程—食品科学]