TECHNOLOGY, UBERIZATION AND STRUCTURAL PRECARIZATION: TRIAD OF CURRENT FORMS OF WORK EXPLOITATION AND CONTROL
Technology; Uberization; Control; Precariousness.
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 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.