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Special issue on “Infrastructural Capitalism and labour in the Age of Monopoly: Hong Kong and Mainland China

Date
11 Feb 2021 (Fri)

Time
2-4:30 p.m.

Venue
LYH 308, Lau Lee Yuen Haan Amenities Building, Lingnan University, or Zoom

Language
English

STARTDETAILS
2:00:00 PMWelcome Remarks

Ka Ho MOK, Chair Professor, Lingnan University

Ngai PUN, Chair Professor, Lingnan University
2:05:00 PMInstitutions, occupations and connectivity: The embeddedness of gig works and platform-mediated labour market in Hong Kong

Tat Chor AU-YEUNG, Assistant Professor, Lingnan University

Jack QIU, Professor, National University of Singapore
2:20:00 PMQ&A
2:25:00 PM‘No South Asian riders please’: politics of visibilization ín platformed food delivery work during COVID in Hong Kong 

Lisa LEUNG Yuk-ming, Associate Professor, Lingnan University
2:40:00 PMQ&A
2:45:00 PMSocial Reproduction and Labour Process in China’s Gig Economy: A Case Study of Chinese Female Platform Drivers

Haley, KWAN Hiu Lap (PhD candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong)
3:00:00 PMQ&A
3:05:00 PMBREAK
3:10:00 PMThe broken promise of human capital theory: Social embeddedness, graduate entrepreneurs, and youth employment in Shenzhen

Yuyang KANG, Postdoctoral fellow, Lingnan University

Ka Ho MOK, Chair Professor, Lingnan University
3:25:00 PMQ&A
3:30:00 PMHong 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 PMQ&A
3:50:00 PMWork faster, harder, cheaper? Global, local and sectoral co-configurations of job insecurities among Hong Kong creative workers

Tommy TSE, Assistant Professor, Department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam
4:05:00 PMQ&A
4:10:00 PMMarx’s Theories and Beyond: Understanding Working-Class Solidarity in China

Ngai PUN, Chair Professor, Lingnan University
4:25:00 PMWrap-up