This paper explores, in the context of regulating work by digital platforms, the configuration of independent work outside wage earning patterns. Based on a socio-legal perspective, the study analyzes some dimensions of labor freedom on digital platforms, to further understand these new forms of digital labor governance. In presenting a set of empirical data produced in Brazil in 2021, which gathers the demands and perceptions of platform workers regarding rights in these labor relations, the article argues that these perceptions show that the apparent autonomy and freedom of platform work is related to its management model.
Digital work platforms; Digital work; Labor Law; Labor relations; Legal subordination