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

Trabalhadores de plataforma na América Latina: lógica transnacional e resistências regionais?

Abstract

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.

Keywords:
Platforms; Work; Algorithms; International unionism

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