Platform workers in Latin America: transnational logics and regional resistances?
The platforms boom in Latin America is at the current core of the industrial and retail sectors. Platform workers (i.e., drivers, motorcyclists and bikers) started organizing along different repertoires taken from other countries thanks to the global character of productive processes and the weight...
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| Published in | Tempo social : revista de sociologia da USP Vol. 33; no. 2; pp. 231 - 251 |
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| Main Authors | , |
| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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16.08.2021
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| Online Access | Get full text |
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| Summary: | The platforms boom in Latin America is at the current core of the industrial and retail sectors. Platform workers (i.e., drivers, motorcyclists and bikers) started organizing along different repertoires taken from other countries thanks to the global character of productive processes and the weight of migrant labor in services, such as mail, post services, and mobility of people. From a qualitative approach, this article proposes an overview of main organizing experiences and burgeoning struggles in this new context aggravated by the intensification of such platforms within the Covid-19 crisis. |
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| ISSN: | 0103-2070 1809-4554 |
| DOI: | 10.11606/0103-2070.ts.2021.181565 |