Author(s)

BingXian Liu

Affiliation(s)

Management Studies of Woosong University, Daejeon 34606, South Korea.

Corresponding Author

BingXian Liu

ABSTRACT

Atypical job is prevalent worldwide. Since the initiation of economic reforms in China four decades ago, dispatched workers have emerged as a substantial segment of its labour force market. Despite China's established regulatory framework for governing the labor dispatch market, the past decade has seen occurrences of inequitable treatment of dispatched workers. More attention has also been piqued over the motivation of some Chinese people opt to become dispatched workers instead of full-time employees.

The author randomly distributed an online questionnaire to 150 Chinese dispatched workers who worked for W factory (based in Shanghai, China) and administered follow-up interviews with 20 of 150 them for more details. The present state of dispatched workers in China, indicating that engagement in the gig economy is a rational avenue for the unemployed or those with inadequate income from conventional employment were been elucidated. The challenges occurred in these Chinese dispatched workers, as well as their incentives for becoming such workers were concluded.

KEYWORDS

Gig economy; Chinese dispatched workers; Qualitative research

CITE THIS PAPER

BingXian Liu. Gig economy in China: the motivation and challenges of Chinese dispatched workers. Social Science and Management. 2024, 1(2): 5-14. https://doi.org/10.61784/ssm3014.

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