Comments: Andrés Spognardi (ECOSOL-CES)


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The seminar will discuss the perspective of workers who, associated or not, use digital platforms to carry out their labour activities and reproduce life through this work. According to Grohmann (2021: 13), platform work is a “laboratory of class struggle”: it can mean both an increase in exploitation by capital, through the control and management of work - following the example of Amazon, Rappi, Uber, 99 and other “giants” of platform capitalism, and the possibility of construction of alternatives by workers, when engaged in processes of self-managed association. Jathan Sadowski (2020) considers the ubiquity of digital platforms, given the companies that disseminate them, as a dominant form of rentierism in contemporary capitalism. Van Dijck, Poell and de Wall (2018) even talk about the "platform society", such is the level of engagement in the digital world that societies have developed from the second decade of the 21st century. We propose to discuss the topic and to present two successful empirical records of Platform cooperativism: Señoritas Courier in São Paulo-Sp (Brazil) and Pedal Express, in Porto Alegre-RS (Brazil).

Bio note

Marília Veríssimo Veronese is a psychologist, master and doctor in Social Psychology by the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (2004). She did a short term doctoral internship at the University of Havana in 2001 and at the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra in 2003, under the supervision of Boaventura de Sousa Santos. She is currently a Full Professor at the Universidade Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS), being an associated researcher of the research group on Solidarity and Cooperative Economy (ECOSOL-UNISINOS) and also linked to ECOSOL-CES. She has experience in the areas of Sociology and Social Psychology, also working in the area of Collective Health.