Regime de acumulação flexivel e capitalismo de plataforma: a precarização do trabalho no Brasil no século XXI

Abstract

This research seeks to study the changes that occurred in the technical basis of capital accumulation, which due to technological advances and adaptations in capitalism culminated in what we currently known as "Platform Capitalism". Where platforms play a mediating role but control the way interactions occur and even the rules that users must follow. However, despite the platforms seeking to position themselves as neutral spaces for interaction, there is an underlying power structure that benefits the owners of the companies that own the platforms. These accumulate enormous amounts of data with the aim of developing new services and products. In the last centuries of the capitalist accumulation regime, several stages of changes and adaptations occurred, as well as several systemic crises due to its exploratory mode of production. In the last century, the centrality of the economy in markets has influenced all aspects of contemporary life, from food to housing. In the 21st century, data obtained through interaction between users of digital platforms has become the new raw material of this accumulation regime, driving a new form of capital accumulation. Technological advances and the globalization process have enabled the development of competent production systems and established a new competitive logic focused on more efficient processes and lower costs. However, it also caused precarious work and significantly reduced the labor rights previously achieved. The ways in which the platformized working class organizes itself to deal with and combat such corporate advances behave in different ways and in different spaces. The changes that have occurred and are occurring in the world of work are strongly linked to the phenomenon of platformization.