Subjectivation and psychosocial risks of the uberization of work in territorial dynamics

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ID16940503
AuthorsRonaldo Gomes-Souza (0000-0002-4349-2688, Universidade Federal do Amazonas), Marcelo Claudio Tramontano (0000-0002-0044-4432, Universidade de São Paulo)
Year2024
Volume26
Issue59
Pages143-167
Publication date2024-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCadernos Metrópole (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1517-2422 • E-ISSN: 2236-9996
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/2236-9996.2024-5907.e
OpenAlexW4389257220
SCIELO_PIDS2236-99962024000100143
LanguageEN
References cited25

In view of the economic, political, and technological changes in the world of work within the urban territory, nowadays we are facing new informalities that increase the precariousness of work relationships and conditions in a global level. This essay aims to reflect critically on new subjectivations and on psychosocial risks related to the uberization of work, analyzing their impacts on territorial dynamics. We highlight platform companies that offer taxi and delivery services, and we provide a panorama that shifts from the international to the national scenario. Uberized workers face unique episodes of violence committed by platform companies and urban violence, which intensify psychosocial risks and harm workers' dignity, health, and quality of life. The practices of platform companies, as well as their management and contradictions, reveal a deprivation of the right to the city and the capture of workers' subjectivity

Business · Dignity · Harm · Political science · Politics · Psychosocial · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Subjectivity · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Employment and Welfare Studies · Engineering · Law · Psychology · Sharing Economy and Platforms · Social Psychology

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