Mobilizing Truck Drivers in China: New Migrant Struggle and the Emergence of Infrastructural Capitalism

Kevin LIN; Ngai PUN

doi:10.1215/00382876-9155337

Mobilizing Truck Drivers in China: New Migrant Struggle and the Emergence of Infrastructural Capitalism

Kevin LIN, Ngai PUN

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Abstract

In June 2018, a group of Chinese truck drivers, overwhelmingly made up of rural migrant workers, staged wildcat strikes across China to demand better pay from a monopolistic, logistic, app-based platform. The strike wave intersects with two emerging phenomena in China: the rising employment in the logistics industry and the expanding platform-based economy taking over new and traditional sectors. As the locus of the Chinese economy shifts from manufacturing to service, understanding the nature and implications of the logistics workers’ organizing sheds light on China’s ever-evolving labor movement.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	647-654
Number of pages	8
Journal	South Atlantic Quarterly
Volume	120
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-9155337
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2021
Externally published	Yes

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China
logistics workers
platform economy

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