Open AccessPlatform workers in Latin America: transnational logics and regional resistances?
Author(s) -
Pablo Míguez,
Nicolás Diana Menéndez
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
tempo social
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.449
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1809-4554
pISSN - 0103-2070
DOI - 10.11606/0103-2070.ts.2021.181565
Subject(s) - latin americans , boom , context (archaeology) , political science , covid-19 , core (optical fiber) , economy , economic growth , economic geography , sociology , geography , engineering , economics , law , telecommunications , medicine , disease , archaeology , pathology , environmental engineering , infectious disease (medical specialty)
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.