Capitalismo de plataforma: o impacto da tecnologia digital nas relações de trabalho

Abstract

The current society is in a context of great dependence on information and communication technologies, the ICTs. With these technologies, digital platforms have also emerged, which are currently used in the most diverse activities of human daily life, such as food, travel, leisure, and even work. With the rapid popularization and dissemination of digital platforms and the growing human dependence on these instruments, it is possible to characterize the current moment of modern capitalism as Platform Capitalism. One of the novelties arising from this new conjuncture is the work performed through digital platforms, which presents a series of nuances that differentiate it from traditional work. Therefore, because it is a new subject, there is still no doctrinal or jurisprudential pacification about it, and there is a big discussion about whether this new kind of work is really new or just traditional work under a new guise. In this respect, the debate arises about the subsumption of platform work to the Brazilian labor legislation, trying to understand if there is a subordinated work, where there is an employment relationship between workers and platform companies, or if it is an autonomous work, where workers, entrepreneurs, only have a partnership relationship with the companies that own the applications.