Platform workers in Latin America: transnational logics and regional resistances?

Míguez, Pablo; Menéndez, Nicolás Diana

doi:10.11606/0103-2070.ts.2021.181565

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“…Innovative methods have shown, by geolocating the trajectories of riders, how platforms are playing a role in shaping cities and upper-class neighbourhoods, for example (Gregory and Maldonado 2020). Researchers from Latin America (Miguez and Menendez 2021;Munoz and Martinez 2022) have also explored how platform delivery riders organise, develop various solidarity projects, and contest deregulation and neoliberal models (Vargas et al 2022). Moreover, work in political economy has focused on collective agency, social movements, and grassroots organisations (Cant 2019, 2020; Tassinari and Maccarrone 2020; Veen et al 2020).…”

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Citizen‐rentier‐ship: Delivering the Undocumented to Labour Platforms in Paris

Baril

2023

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Platform food delivery workers have been under much scrutiny over the last couple of years. Undocumented riders, and their recent strikes and protests in France, have not received as much attention as other issues regarding platform labour (contract work, algorithmic control, surveillance). This article follows fieldwork conducted in Paris and interviews with food couriers. Building on work by critical urban studies, migration studies and science and technology studies, this research puts forward citizen‐rentier‐ship, a tool to understand how multiple parties profit from aspects of precarious status. Interviews with undocumented couriers who worked in Paris highlight how the subletting of accounts, the complicit role of the state, the hypocrisy of employers and the interdependency with the “regularised” put undocumented couriers in hyper‐precarious situations. This article concludes that labour laws, misclassification and migration policies are at the centre of the struggles of Paris’ delivery workers and that they need changes.

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Citizen‐rentier‐ship: Delivering the Undocumented to Labour Platforms in Paris

Baril

2023

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“…Nas palavras de Abílio (2020, julho 30): "Neste desgoverno pandêmico, estabelece-se nos arranjos cotidianos a linha divisória entre os que têm o privilégio de estar em casa e os que têm de estar na rua -uma linha que materializa as desigualdades da sociedade brasileira e suas formas de gestão." 10 Tal como a greve internacional dos trabalhadores por aplicativos ocorrida em 8 de outubro de 2020, precedida por uma coletiva de imprensa em escala mundial, em 29 de setembro do mesmo ano, que deu voz às pautas desse desses trabalhadores em países como Argentina, México, Chile, Peru, Equador, Colômbia, Estados Unidos, Itália, França, Alemanha, Espanha, Japão e Nigéria, para além do Brasil (Miguez & Menendez, 2021).…”

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Atuação dos sindicatos de entregadores e de motoristas por aplicativo durante a pandemia da Covid-19 em São Paulo

Pereira

2023

Rev. Bras. Econ. Soc. Trab.

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Com foco em dois sindicatos que buscam organizar os entregadores e os motoristas por aplicativos, em São Paulo, este artigo tem por objetivo elucidar quais ações foram tomadas frente à crise sanitária da Covid-19. Por meio do levantamento documental, da realização de entrevistas com dirigentes sindicais e de pesquisa de campo, busca compreender, por um lado, quais as principais reivindicações desses sindicatos às empresas detentoras das plataformas digitais e ao poder público; por outro, quais os impactos da pandemia sobre suas formas de atuação. Os resultados apontam que a luta contra a precarização se tornou mais intensa, impulsionando os sindicatos a pressionar as empresas e as instituições públicas por melhores condições de trabalho. Ademais, as ações de solidariedade contribuíram para os sindicatos se aproximarem desses trabalhadores, oferecendo respostas concretas às demandas que foram ignoradas por parte das empresas.

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“…Successful organising in highly fragmented platform economies with diverse labour forces also shows how difference does not have to be a limitation and has indeed fostered resistance and activism, based on global best practice and novel repertoires of action (Miguez/Menendez 2021). The contribution by Kruskaya Hidalgo Cordero shows how the rise of platform economies has exposed the limits of classic unions.…”

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Scaling Up? On the Possibilities and Limits of Transnational Labour Organising in Globalised Production

Fischer¹,

Staritz²,

Moe³

2022

Journal Für Entwicklungspolitik

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This article provides an overview of theoretical and empirical efforts to understand the multiple dimensions enabling and hindering (transnational) labour organising in the context of globalised production. It situates the contributions to this special issue in the broader debate on the role of labour and workers' agency in global value chains and production networks. For this, it brings together chain and network approaches with labour studies in a highly productive dialogue. Focusing on labour as a transnational actor, the article further identifies different approaches of and actors within transnational organising and provides empirical insights on the complexity of the politics of scale in organising efforts. Four key issues are identified as complicating labour organising along global value chains: (i) asymmetrical power relations within organising, particularly between the global North and South, (ii) the continued importance of the local and national scale, (iii) difference and dividing lines between workers, and (iv) the red-green divide. The article argues for the importance of a multi-scalar and intersectional perspective on transnational organising beyond binaries. Such an approach recognises the key role of local alliances as well as the possibilities and limits arising from transnational organising initiatives to confront globalised capital.

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Platform workers in Latin America: transnational logics and regional resistances?

Cited by 4 publications

References 17 publications

Citizen‐rentier‐ship: Delivering the Undocumented to Labour Platforms in Paris

Citizen‐rentier‐ship: Delivering the Undocumented to Labour Platforms in Paris

Atuação dos sindicatos de entregadores e de motoristas por aplicativo durante a pandemia da Covid-19 em São Paulo

Scaling Up? On the Possibilities and Limits of Transnational Labour Organising in Globalised Production

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