Nowak, Jörg, Steven Rolf and Wei Wei. 2022. “Leapfrog Logistics: Digital Platforms, Infrastructure, and Labor in Brazil and China.” Phenomenal World. June.
In Spring 2018, two significant labor disputes broke out at opposite ends of the earth. The first, in Brazil, was an 11 day mass strike of 400,000 truckers in response to successive price increases unleashed by the state oil company, Petrobras, liberalizing diesel prices. The second, in China, was a large strike which spread across the nation in response to low fees paid by digital trucking platforms, which account for a growing share of China’s road freight market.
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