Platform capitalism in Latin American context

work reconfigurations and precariousness

Abstract

Labor reforms that have taken place in recent decades in several countries of the global North and global South, have set the stage and created the environment for work flexibility, opening an avenue for work without labor rights. Platform capitalism emerges and navigates this environment, not only benefiting more directly from its measures for rights flexibilization, but also more broadly relying on arguments that informed them aiming to naturalize and justify its model. Such processes have given rise to numerous studies on digital work worldwide, and particularly in Brazil and Latin America, involving a multiplicity of approaches and theoretical perspectives. The dossier we present here is justified by the importance of themes relating to “platform work” and to discussions about the future of work and the dismantling of the “wage-earning society”.