Governing in the gaps: Welfare interfaces and delivery riders in urban China
Published online on July 27, 2026
Abstract
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This article examines how a local state in Wuxi governs delivery riders whose labour is indispensable to urban life yet difficult to gather into stable organisational forms. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork between 2023 and 2025, with follow-up into 2026,...
This article examines how a local state in Wuxi governs delivery riders whose labour is indispensable to urban life yet difficult to gather into stable organisational forms. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork between 2023 and 2025, with follow-up into 2026,...