Porcelain Publishing / JCHRM / Volume 12 / Issue 2 / DOI: 10.47297/wspchrmWSP2040-800502.20211202
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Decentralization, market, and aspiration: Dimensions of the control mechanism of the transnational online english education industry

Yun Xiong 1
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1 Department of Sociology,Peking University,Beijing,P. R. China, Department of Sociology,Peking University,Beijing,P. R. China
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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this research is to examine the three-dimensional control mechanisms in the transnational online English education sector and go forward with labor control studies. 

Design/methodology/approach

This paper obtains the data from subjective methods. The empirical materials are based on interviews with the Filipino online teachers and English learners who have purchased this service. 

Results

The intermediary firm has devised the control mechanism through the decentered management system, adaptive market grasp in the Philippines' labor market, and English learners' desires for mobility. Such strategies control labor process are conducted by using a decentered management system, maintain and deepen control by seizing the market by taking advantage of the "employee-recognition" tactics and the desires for social and transnational mobility of the pupils. 

Conclusion

The mechanism of control of transnational online English education is effective and feasible, because it reflects and applies the macro political and economic order described by Wallerstein in his "World System" theory.

Keywords
Labor control
Filipino online teachers
Decentralization
Market
Mobility
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