How does food delivery work become masculinised? Frontline supervisors enact their gendered beliefs in recruiting desirable male workers. They deliberately retain poorer workers whose dependence on income is greater, thereby minimising labour turnover to generate more profits. Delivery driverscompete for economic and symbolic rewards and, by extension, for the markers of masculine success. A fewContinue reading “Zhang, Zihao and Jenny Chan. 2026. “Gendered Organisation of Platform Food Delivery Work in China.” Made in China Journal 10(2): 252-57.”
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Chan (2025) Platform labor politics
Chan, Jenny. 2025. “Platform-mediated Informal Employment, the State, and Labor Politics in China.” Pp. 233-47 in The Handbook of Digital Labor, edited by Jack Linchuan Qiu, Shinjoung Yeo and Richard Maxwell. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. Jenny Chan presents an overview of platform-mediated labor in China with an emphasis on informal employment, the role of the state,Continue reading “Chan (2025) Platform labor politics”
HRM in China’s New Global Economy
Tony Dundon and Jenny Chan. 2025. “HRM in China’s New Global Economy.” Pp. 16-18 in Contemporary Human Resource Management: Text and Cases, edited by Adrian Wilkinson, Tony Dundon and Edward Yates. 7th Edition. London: SAGE. URL: https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/contemporary-human-resource-management/book286108
Re-Examining the ‘Entrepreneurial Self’: (Transformation of) Worker Subjectivity in China’s Internet Industry
20 March 2025 (onlinefirst)
Migrate to (not) be ‘gurus’: Unpacking workplace masculinity in China’s tech sector
Li, Xiaotian and Jenny Chan. 2024. “Migrate to (not) be ‘gurus’: Unpacking workplace masculinity in China’s tech sector.” Work, Gender and Organization 31(6): 2618–2633. DOI: 10.1111/gwao.13112 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680432/2024/31/6
The Master in Bondage: A Conversation with Huaiyin Li
Huaiyin Li, with Jenny Chan 20 March 2024 Made in China Journal Huaiyin Li Huaiyin Li, PhD (UCLA), is Professor of History and Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Village Governance in North China, 1875–1936 (Stanford University Press, 2005), Village China under Socialism and Reform: A Micro-History, 1948–2008 (Stanford University Press,Continue reading “The Master in Bondage: A Conversation with Huaiyin Li”
Review of The Master in Bondage: Factory Workers in China, 1949-2019, by Huaiyin Li (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2023), Labor History
Jenny Chan. 2024. Review of The Master in Bondage: Factory Workers in China, 1949-2019, by Huaiyin Li (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2023), Labor History 65(1): 160-62. Book Review The Master in Bondage: factory workers in China, 1949-2019 by Huaiyin Li, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2023, 330 pp. Jenny Chan Labor History Volume 65, Issue 1 Pages: 160-162 PublishedContinue reading “Review of The Master in Bondage: Factory Workers in China, 1949-2019, by Huaiyin Li (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2023), Labor History “
REVIEW OF The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy
The China Quarterly (Volume 256 – December 2023) REVIEW OF The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy Lin ZHANG New York: Columbia University Press, 2023 REVIEWER: Jenny Chan Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 November 2023, pp. 1109-1111 Print publication: December 2023 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741023001558 Below PDF for download:
Jenny Chan. 2023. “Informalization of Labor in Contemporary China.” Pp. 591-601 in Handbook of Research on the Global Political Economy of Work, edited by Maurizio Atzeni, Dario Azzellini, Alessandra Mezzadri, Phoebe Moore and Ursula Apitzsch. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
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Jenny Chan. 2023. “Class, Labour Conflict, and Workers’ Organisation.” The Economic and Labour Relations Review 34(3): 383-94. **ARTICLE OF THE MONTH (April 2024)
Class, labour conflict, and workers’ organisation Jenny Chan The Economic and Labour Relations Review ARTICLE OF THE MONTH: APRIL 2024 According to the ELRR, ‘Chan and her colleagues seek to conceptualise labour conflict and collective action in broader class analysis, and to examine the combined effect of state policies, migration, and digital innovation on contemporaryContinue reading “Jenny Chan. 2023. “Class, Labour Conflict, and Workers’ Organisation.” The Economic and Labour Relations Review 34(3): 383-94. **ARTICLE OF THE MONTH (April 2024)”
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