
Special issue on “Infrastructural Capitalism and labour in the Age of Monopoly: Hong Kong and Mainland China
In light of the recent pandemic outbreak, this event will be conducted online.
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START |
DETAILS |
2:00:00 PM |
Welcome Remarks Ka Ho MOK, Chair Professor, Lingnan University Ngai PUN, Chair Professor, Lingnan University |
2:05:00 PM |
Institutions, occupations and connectivity: The embeddedness of gig works and platform-mediated labour market in Hong Kong |
2:20:00 PM |
Q&A |
2:25:00 PM |
‘No South Asian riders please’: politics of visibilization ín platformed food delivery work during COVID in Hong Kong |
2:40:00 PM |
Q&A |
2:45:00 PM |
Social Reproduction and Labour Process in China’s Gig Economy: A Case Study of Chinese Female Platform Drivers |
3:00:00 PM |
Q&A |
3:05:00 PM |
BREAK |
3:10:00 PM |
The broken promise of human capital theory: Social embeddedness, graduate entrepreneurs, and youth employment in Shenzhen |
3:25:00 PM |
Q&A |
3:30:00 PM |
Hong Kong’s Precarious Young Workers and Contradictions of Capital under Authoritarian Capitalism Kaxton SIU, Associate Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University Shuheng JIN, Assistant Professor, Guangdong University of Technology |
3:45:00 PM |
Q&A |
3:50:00 PM |
Work faster, harder, cheaper? Global, local and sectoral co-configurations of job insecurities among Hong Kong creative workers |
4:05:00 PM |
Q&A |
4:10:00 PM |
Marx’s Theories and Beyond: Understanding Working-Class Solidarity in China Ngai PUN, Chair Professor, Lingnan University |
4:25:00 PM |
Wrap-up |
11 Feb 2021 (Fri)
Time
2-4:30 p.m.
VenueLYH 308, Lau Lee Yuen Haan Amenities Building, Lingnan University, or
Join online via Zoom
Language
English
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