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This article discusses the discriminatory, anti-women workplace culture in China's tech industry and how tech workers organise online activism in response. In August 2021, an online petition broke out to demand justice for a sexual crime victim at the Chinese e-commerce enterprise Alibaba. This is a powerful example of digital activism leaping beyond the constraints and challenges of labour organising in the global tech sector. The article shows how social media could bring new possibilities to the tech worker movement in both authoritarian and democratic countries.

This article documents the working conditions and experiences of tech professionals at a leading Chinese e-commerce firm. Using intensive qualitative research methods, the author finds that digital management of tech professionals has accompanied and perhaps explains some of the Chinese tech industry's much-heralded increases in efficiency and productivity. This management form can be understood as digital Taylorism, which has similar pathologies to the original Taylorism: a dehumanising effect on the workplace, increased work intensity, a higher income but proportionately lower share of the gains from increased productivity, and intensified competition among workers. It is hoped that this study will open up new avenues for evidence-based discussion about the future of work and the ethics of algorithm use in the workplace.

Hong Kong, being the "Asia's world city", the government proclaimed itself committed to enhancing an inclusive society. However, critics have been questioning the effectiveness of its policy in bringing social inclusion as many South Asians in Hong Kong have to deal with post-colonial identity struggle in everyday life. By using participant observations and interviews, I will discuss how South Asians engage in community art which enables them to find other realms of (self-)representation beyond those delivered by the state and its failed promise of institutionalised assimilatory multiculturalism. Despite the policy shortcomings, a "dual" Hongkonger identity was found in minority descendants, facilitated by participating in community art activities. This article contributes to the knowledge of cultural inclusion, to understand its empowerment and potential conflicts in community art participation, and to invite more academic discussions on multiculturalism in the context of Hong Kong.

Hong Kong, being the "Asia's world city", the government proclaimed itself committed to enhancing an inclusive society. However, critics have been questioning the effectiveness of its policy in bringing social inclusion as many South Asians in Hong Kong have to deal with post-colonial identity struggle in everyday life. By using participant observations and interviews, I will discuss how South Asians engage in community art which enables them to find other realms of (self-)representation beyond those delivered by the state and its failed promise of institutionalised assimilatory multiculturalism. Despite the policy shortcomings, a "dual" Hongkonger identity was found in minority descendants, facilitated by participating in community art activities. This article contributes to the knowledge of cultural inclusion, to understand its empowerment and potential conflicts in community art participation, and to invite more academic discussions on multiculturalism in the context of Hong Kong.

Unions in Hong Kong played an important role in the historical develoopment of civil society and labour rights long before the handover of Hong Kong to the Chinese sovereignty in 1997. But what are the possible impacts of the new union movement in Hong Kong today? KEYWORDS: labour activism; unionism; Hong Kong studies; social movement; industrial relations

With the governmental sectors imitating the reformation of enterprises stressing on Knowledge, Contracting Out and Deregulation have become the core policies. Contracting Out is not based on the arbitrariness of an administrator, but the selective efficiency and competition. Connecting the resources between Public and Private Sectors is a concern of Contracting Out, while Knowledge Outsourcing is an innovation to enhance organizational knowledge and the reduction of organizational ignorance. Based on a Knowledge Outsourcing Investigation by the Kaohsiung City Government (Taiwan) in the past few years, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Sensitivity Analysis are integrated for measuring the total efficiency (TE), pure technical efficiency (PTE), and scale efficiency (SE) of Knowledge Outsourcing of the sectors in the Kaohsiung City Government for the improvement reference of other counties and cities. From the message acquired from the efficiency and variables with the DEA, one DMU (Data Management Unit), or about 5% of all DMUs, appears to have strong Knowledge Outsourcing efficiency 1, showing favorable Knowledge Outsourcing efficiency. Two DMUs, comprising about 10% of all DMUs, reveal the marginal Knowledge Outsourcing inefficiency between 0.9 and 1. This implies that such sectors could better enhance the Knowledge Outsourcing efficiency. 17 DMUs, representing about 85% of all DMUs, exhibit an obvious Knowledge Outsourcing inefficiency of less than 0.9, so that the Finance and Transportation Bureaus present the lowest Knowledge Outsourcing efficiency. ; En la medida en que el sector público imita la reforma de aquellas empresas que ponen el acento en el conocimiento, la subcontratación y la desregulación se han convertido en las principales políticas. La subcontratación no se basa en la arbitrariedad de un gestor público, sino en la eficacia selectiva y la competencia. El interés de la subcontratación consiste en poner en contacto los recursos del sector público y privado, mientras que la externalización del conocimiento supone una innovación para incrementar el conocimiento organizativo y reducir la ignorancia organizativa. Basándose en una investigación sobre externalización de conocimiento llevada a cabo por el Ayuntamiento de Kaohsiung (Taiwan) en los últimos años, se ha integrado el Análisis Envolvente de Datos (DEA) y el Análisis de Sensibilidad para medir la eficiencia total (TE), la eficiencia técnica pura (PTE) y la eficiencia del tamaño (SE) en la externalización del conocimiento en del Ayuntamiento de Kaohsiung, lo que puede servir para otros países y ciudades. De las variables sobre eficiencia del DEA se obtiene que un DMU (Data Management Unit), esto es, en torno al 5% de todos los DMU, cuenta con una robusta eficiencia de 1 en la externalización del conocimiento, lo que muestra una favorable eficiencia en la externalización de conocimiento. Dos DMU, lo que supone alrededor del 10% de todos los DMU, revela ineficiencia marginal en la externalización de conocimiento entre 0,9 y 1. Ello supone que esos sectores podrían incrementar la eficiencia en la externalización del conocimiento. Diecisiete DMU, que representan el 85% de todos los DMU, muestran una obvia ineficiencia en la externalización de conocimiento menor de 0,9, por lo que el sector de las finanzas y el de transporte presenta la menor eficiencia en la externalización de conocimiento.