“The place rookies prevail: Digital habitus and age-based earnings differentials in on-line authorized providers“
Sida Liu, Yao Yao
British Journal of Industrial Relations
Revealed on-line: June 2024
Summary: This analysis investigates how and why the digitalization of labor can disrupt age-based earnings stratification in an occupation. Analysing a service archive dataset from a significant on-line authorized service platform in China, the examine finds that, opposite to the standard patterns of revenue inequality, youthful attorneys earn greater than older attorneys within the digital authorized area. Additional analyses of the platform’s service information and interviews with attorneys engaged on this platform counsel that the platform’s work content material and work distribution mechanism make mature attorneys’ human, social and symbolic capital much less helpful. In the meantime, the preferences of platform purchasers place added worth on youthful attorneys’ digital habitus and switch it into a brand new type of cultural capital, manifested of their proficiency and effectiveness in digital communication. By inspecting habitus and capital within the rising digital authorized area, this analysis deepens the understanding of the affect of digital applied sciences on knowledge-intensive occupations.
