Precarious labor relations: considerations about the uberization of work

Abstract

The work aims to problematize some transformations in the scope of work, technological innovations, the explosion of work through applications and the precariousness of these labor relations. With the productive restructuring, microelectronic-based technologies were incorporated into production, which changed production processes and the organization of work activities, especially with the dissemination of Information and Communication Technology. The restructuring demanded new skills from the working class to adapt to the new format of production; Workers, under these conditions, were pressured to seek specializations, training, among other mechanisms for updating in the face of competition with their peers. From this, the uberization of work is established as a phenomenon that occurs through changes in capitalist dynamics, in the role of the State, in new forms of organization and management provided by technological development, in the elimination of labor rights, in the control work etc. As a result, workers have suffered from long working hours, low wages, insecurity and work intensification. To characterize such processes, reflection is based on dialectical historical materialism. The investigation is characterized as bibliographical research, and its research source was books, articles, and reports on work using applications. In this way, it was confirmed that uberized work re-updates old forms of labor exploitation.