Capitalismo de plataforma e uberização do trabalho em uma perspectiva de raça na cidade de Ituiutaba, Minas Gerais, Brasil

Abstract

This Undergraduate Thesis aims to analyze the manifestations of platform capitalism and the uberization of labor based on the reality of the municipality of Ituiutaba (MG), considering the relationships between labor and race. The research was guided by the historical-dialectical materialist method and used as methodological procedures the application of questionnaires and direct observation with 20 workers from the taxi and motorcycle taxi sector.

The results indicate that, although Ituiutaba (MG) does not present a consolidated presence of digital platforms based on algorithms and intensive data use, the investigated sector exhibits characteristics associated with uberization, such as informality, absence of labor rights, flexible working hours, and the transfer of activity-related risks to workers. It was also observed the predominance of Black and mixed-race workers, highlighting the persistence of racial inequalities in the labor market.

It is concluded that the case of Ituiutaba expresses a particular form of territorialization of uberization, marked by the coexistence between traditional services and new forms of intermediation, revealing the historical persistence of labor precarization under new dynamics.