Political action under the rise of platforms and the precarization of labour: a mobile ethnography of Brazilian Uber's drivers

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  • Presentation type: Paper
  • Track: Session 03 - "Activism, Algorithms and Politics"
  • Keywords: Uber; Platformization; Platforms; Algorithmic Labor; RESISTANCE;

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Political action under the rise of platforms and the precarization of labour: a mobile ethnography of Brazilian Uber's drivers

Ana Guerra

UFMG

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This article presents an ethnographic approach to driving with/for Uber in Brazil to investigate how mobile algorithmic labour fits in a context of neoliberal governmental policies and which are the tactics engendered by drivers to negotiate work practices within the technical mediations of platforms and formulate collective demands

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