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Entrepreneurial Labor : = Digital Work and Subjectivities in China's New Economy.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Entrepreneurial Labor :/
其他題名:	Digital Work and Subjectivities in China's New Economy.
作者:	Zhang, Lin.
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (256 pages)
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-11, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-11A.
標題:	Labor economics. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27801318click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9781392662632

Entrepreneurial Labor : = Digital Work and Subjectivities in China's New Economy.
Zhang, Lin.

Entrepreneurial Labor :Digital Work and Subjectivities in China's New Economy. - 1 online resource (256 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-11, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Southern California, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references

Entrepreneurial Labor portrays the proliferation of Internet-based self-employment practices and micro-enterprises in post-2008 China. It examines the emerging digital entrepreneurial labor practices in relation to the changing subjectivities and regime of governance in China at a time of rapid social and technological transformations and high economic uncertainty. Deploying the analytic of entrepreneurial labor, I depict, on one hand, how entrepreneurs have become the new laborers-the normalization and romanticization of IT-related flexible labor practices by Chinese young people faced with declining job security and new self-employment opportunities opened up by economic restructuring in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis; I highlight, on the other, the culturally and historical specific labor entrepreneurial self-making-the contentious process of crafting new subjectivities in accordance with the demand of the new economy. I draw attention to how the expansion of digital entrepreneurial labor in China is articulated to both the global neoliberal individualization of work since the 1970s and its post-2008 acceleration with the rise of the platform economy, and the processes of national restructuring and identity (class, gender, race, locale) construction at this particular historical conjuncture in China and for Chinese in transnational space.To capture the multifaceted and broad scope of digital entrepreneurship in China, I conducted multi-sited ethnography (virtual and offline) and interviews between 2011 and 2016, which allow me to observe closely the lived experience of three groups of Chinese digital entrepreneurs who had become involved in the new economy in different ways. Specifically, I tell three stories of Internet entrepreneurs who are differently positioned along the axes of class, gender, and locale. They are young IT start-up entrepreneurs vying for venture capital backing in Beijing's Zhongguancun (Known as China's Silicon Valley); peasant migrant workers who return to their home villages from the city to open family e-commerce businesses trading village-produced handicrafts; and transnationally mobile, young middle-class Chinese women who make a living by re-selling Western brands via social media.I argue that the regime of digital entrepreneurial labor is being co-constructed by the state, capital, and entrepreneurial workers as a solution to boosting China's slowing economic growth, facilitating economic and social restructuring and easing structural un (under) employment in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. The deepening regime of entrepreneurial labor in post-2008 China is a contested articulation of transformations in global capitalism, Chinese traditions and the lived experience of Chinese people at this current historical moment when the global and local, the residual and emerging are interacting in complex ways. Chinese entrepreneurs are making their own subjectivities as they are remaking global digital capitalism. The expansion of the entrepreneurial labor regime in the digital era has generated many contradictions, creating new opportunities to make capitalism more livable while giving rise of new forms of precarity, anxiety, and inequalities.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781392662632Subjects--Topical Terms:

642730
Labor economics.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Self-employment practicesIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

Entrepreneurial Labor : = Digital Work and Subjectivities in China's New Economy.
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