1st Edition

Digital Work and Digital Workers in Europe and China

Edited By Laurence Roulleau-Berger, Wen Jun Copyright 2026
252 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

252 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book is a study of digital workers across diverse contexts in China and Europe, giving valuable insight into their origins, abilities, and working conditions. As the growth of digital work changes the nature of work and employment and the consequences of this for individual workers, this book considers the shift of much economic activity to online activity, examines increasing economic... Read more

Introduction

Laurence Roulleau-Berger and Wen Jun

Chapter 1. Chinese sociology of digital work

Wen Jun and Liu Yuting

Chapter 2. Labor, Digital Sociology and Globalization in Europe and in China

Laurence Roulleau-Berger and Béatrice Zani

Chapter 3. Digital Work and Economic Sociology in China

Qiu Zeqi

Chapter 4. A faceless system of control – delivery platforms and metropolises.

Patrick Cingolani

Chapter 5. The Analysis of Takeaway Riders' Employment Quality and Multiple Dilemmas They Are Facing in China

Cui Yan and Zhao Changjie

Chapter 6. Digital labor as migrant labor: towards and understanding of digital labor from below

Koen Leurs and He Guanqin

Chapter 7. Digital Labor and the Life imaginations of Chinese Youth——The Adulthood Transition of Young Physical Workers in the Platform Economy

Tong Xin and Zhang Yang 

Chapter 8. Digital work, digital workers and singularities in China and Europe

Laurence Roulleau-Berger, Li Run

Chapter 9. Digitized Familial Ties and Online Economies: Connected Migrant Entrepreneurs between China and Canada

Beatrice Zani

Chapter 10. The Digital Labor Process of Interns in Chinese Giant Digital Platform Enterprises

Wen Jun, Gu Chudan

Chapter 11. Emotional digital work and Transnational Bloggers on Chinese Social Media Platforms

Liu Yuting

Chapter 12. From Local Protests to International strategies. The mobilisation of Platform Delivery Riders in France

Cynthia Srnec

Biography

Laurence Roulleau-Berger is Research Director Emeritus at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), PhD Supervisor in Sociology, Triangle, ENS (École Normale Supérieure), Lyon, France.

Wen Jun is Professor of Sociology and Social Work, Head of the Institute of Sociology, and Dean of the School of Social Development at East China Normal University, China, and Co- Director of the NYU- ECNU Institute for Social Development at New York University, Shanghai, China.