The Potential and Limits of Spontaneous Labor Activism on Social Media: The Search for Justice among Chinese Restaurant Workers

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Labor Studies Journal Pub Date : 2024-07-25 DOI:10.1177/0160449x241263121

Tommy Wu

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Abstract

Recent scholarship on social media in labor activism has centered on institutions such as labor unions. What is understudied is how “unorganized” workers use social media to reclaim agency. Employing digital ethnography this study explores the use of WeChat, an all-in-one Chinese mobile application, among Chinese restaurant workers to share stories of mistreatment and deteriorating work conditions in the United States. Tracing the development of a blacklist of Chinese/Asian fusion restaurants that garnered the interest of tens of thousands of Chinese restaurant workers, this article reveals the potential and limitations of social media as a medium for labor activism.

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社交媒体上自发劳工行动主义的潜力与局限：中餐馆工人寻求正义

近期有关社交媒体在劳工活动中的应用的研究主要集中在工会等机构上。而对 "无组织 "工人如何使用社交媒体来重新获得代理权的研究却很少。本研究采用数字人种学方法，探讨了中餐馆工人使用微信（一种一体化的中文移动应用程序）分享在美国遭受虐待和工作条件恶化的故事。这篇文章追溯了中餐馆/亚洲风味餐厅黑名单的发展过程，该黑名单引起了数万名中餐馆工人的兴趣，揭示了社交媒体作为劳工行动主义媒介的潜力和局限性。

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Labor Studies Journal Social Sciences-Sociology and Political Science

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1.50

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期刊介绍： The Labor Studies Journal is the official journal of the United Association for Labor Education and is a multi-disciplinary journal publishing research on work, workers, labor organizations, and labor studies and worker education in the US and internationally. The Journal is interested in manuscripts using a diversity of research methods, both qualitative and quantitative, directed at a general audience including union, university, and community based labor educators, labor activists and scholars from across the social sciences and humanities. As a multi-disciplinary journal, manuscripts should be directed at a general audience, and care should be taken to make methods, especially highly quantitative ones, accessible to a general reader.