Novos caminhos da informalidade: uma análise sobre a plataformização do trabalho no Brasil e no México a partir de 2016

Abstract

Labor relations have been undergoing a flexibilization process since the late 1970s, characterized by the outsourcing of labor dimensions, either through large-scale outsourcing movements or qualitatively through the outsourcing of responsibilities and work management to the worker’s domain. The advent of Information and Communication Technology has significantly boosted this trajectory, reaching the current stage in which flexible relations, perpetrated by digital platforms, represents progressive changes in employment patterns and in the relationship between employers and employees. The business models practiced by platform companies have extremely corrosive effects on workers as a category, as well as on labor conditions that have increasingly turned into targets of precarization. Beneath important theoretical contributions such as the “fullness of abstract work” and the “piece-wages”, this study aimed to discuss qualitatively, through a literature review, and quantitatively, through data collected from national statistical censuses, the aftermaths of labor platformization for the labor relations, in particular, its entails for peripheral economies like Brazil and Mexico, the two largest Latin American economies.