With an eye on speedups of production and circulation in our digital economy, this chapter looks into the booming Chinese express delivery sector through the lens of the intersection of class, gender, and migrant labor.
The author gratefully acknowledges the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation and the East and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies for their funding support (AAS EIAC Grant: #1171163).
Jenny Chan. 2023. “Buy with 1-Click: Independent Contracting and Migrant Workers in China’s Last-Mile Delivery.” Pp. 152-68 in Global Labor Migration: New Directions, edited by Eileen Boris, Heidi Gottfried, Julie Greene and Joo-Cheong Tham. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press.
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