Plattformkapitalismus Made in China: Digitalisierung der Niedriglohnproduktion?

Boy Lüthje

WSI-Mitteilungen, 2021, vol. 74, issue 1, 37-43

Abstract: The article examines the current digitalisation of Chinese manufacturing from the perspective of socially-shaped technological transformation. Referring to e-commerce-based manufacturing the author examines the simultaneous changes in technologies, value chains and work. For this purpose, reference is made to the current international discussion on the digitalisation of production and introduces the automation strategies under the “Made in China 2025” programme in classical industrial manufacturing. This is followed by an empirical analysis of the new e-commerce-based manufacturing platforms of China’s largest online retailer, Taobao, and their implications for work organisation and working conditions. The conclusion discusses perspectives for the upgrading of work within platform-based manufacturing models and some implications for labour and industrial policies.

Date: 2021
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/0342-300X-2021-1-37 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nms:wsimit:10.5771/0342-300x-2021-1-37

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, Waldseestraße 3-5, 76530 Baden-Baden, Germany
https://www.nomos-sh ... w.aspx?product=30294

DOI: 10.5771/0342-300X-2021-1-37

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in WSI-Mitteilungen from Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG ().