Tecnologia, uberização e precarização estrutural: tríade das atuais formas de exploração e controle do trabalho

Abstract

The present dissertation “Technology, uberization and structural precariousness: triad of current ways of exploitation and work control”, resulting from a bibliographic and documental research, analyze the function of technic at capitalist sociability reproduction and the impacts of communication and information technology development – TICs, expressed in the uberization process, as a ―new‖ way of exploration and work controlling. Firmly set on Marx social theory assumptions, the study focuses on uberization phenomenon in order to unravel the current way of working which, through the use of digital platforms, realized themselves as the Communication and Information Technologies – TICs pushing applied to the work and its own relation with the Sharing Economy, with the Brazilian Labor Reform to verify why and how the ways of subordination and work control amplify in our times. It's believed that the productive reorganization, started in the 1980s, following the capital structural crisis in 1970 takes to the progress of flexibility and outsourcing process, significantly modifying contracts, work relations and conditions, as they become even more insecure. It is assumed that the phenomenon of uberization embody the context of structural unemployment worsening, which enthroned the technological development, the entrepreneurship, the productive flexibility, masking the workers condition of exploitation and control. It is about these process diversity and complexity in the currently capitalism that the research made to try to unravel the functionality of technological development to the capital and capital crisis. The ontological foundations of work, the technology function in the process of production and work management in the context of competitive capitalism and monopolistic to clarify why and how arise the worker subordination in the working methods. It is highlighted the socioeconomic determinants of structural crisis, the flexibility process and presenting documentary research data that show the unchecked growth of digital platforms (application companies), with the inclusion of workers in the uberization process and the urge to turn the working control less notable, the process of work insecurity, the regressive tendencies that revealed the contradictions inherent of the capital reproduction. In the Brazilian context, the Labor Reform approved and its impacts on the working conditions and relations of workers are discussed, bringing to the context of flexible and uberized relations, with Law No. 13,647/2017. It presents expressions of the reality of workers of digital delivery platforms (delivery drivers by application) in the context of the SARS-Cov19 pandemic in Brazil and the mobilizations as a form of resistance to the precariousness of work.