TRABAJADORES DIGITALMENTE PRECARIZADOS. IMPLICANCIAS LABORALES DEL CAPITALISMO DE PLATAFORMAS

Abstract

This essay analyzes Digital Services Platforms (DSP) and its business model related to the concept of platform capitalism, understood as a new stage that incorporates the digitalization of an enormous amount of data.

In this stage industrial processes of wealth generation are gradually modified and replaced with informational processes, which directly influences the labor market, already in distress due to the crisis that many authors think, capitalism has been suffering for decades now.

Thus, the capitalist system finds in digital data new raw material, and in the DSP format advantages such as the property of this data, the handling of algorithms that allow operation of DSPs, and ownership of software and hardware needed for the platforms to operate, not to mention the relative lack of legislation on the subject and the novelty of its approach.

All this enables uneven power relations with workers; a phenomena that is being slowly countered by a diverse range of cooperative experiences, which are also discussed in this paper.