Julie Yujie Chen
Thrown under the bus and outrunning it! The logic of Didi and taxi drivers’ labour and activism in the on-demand economy
University of Leicester
article examines taxi drivers adapt manipulate fight rise ridehailing platforms like didi chuxing china purchased uber china chinese taxi drivers entered ondemand labour platforms private car drivers based nationwide data survey article argues technological power didi took shape reinforcing inequalities facing informally employed taxi drivers prior emergence ridehailing apps drivers far passive app users counteracted changes work environment resulted platformisation new evolving ways strikes algorithmic activism study suggests online platforms contested spaces digital labour politics penetrate beyond purported algorithmic power technology article enriches researches ondemand labour deconstructing distinction taxi drivers private gig drivers pointing unfolding new grounds digital labour activism