Platform Co Operativism in Brazil

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In Brazil there is a growing kind of platform co operative movement. In brazil, we have about ten collectives, or coops, of workers here. The steam of platform coops was emerged in a with the national strikes. But on the other way, many of the coops and collectives of the workers are trying to build their own technologies. And i think we can relate the liver workers movement and free softers in free technologis movement.

Paris Marx is joined by Rafael Grohmann to discuss the state of app-based work in Brazil, organizing by food delivery workers to demand better conditions, and even a recent strike by click farm workers.

Rafael Grohmann is a professor at UNISINOS, coordinator at DigiLabour Research Lab, and principal investigator in Brazil of Fairwork Project. Follow Rafael on Twitter at @grohmann_rafael.

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Also mentioned in this episode:

DigiLabour is organizing a PhD symposium on October 27-28. Find out more here.
Some of the people and work mentioned in this episode: Callum Cant, Fabian Ferrari and Mark Graham, Noopur Raval, Rosana Pinheiro Machado, Cheryll Soriano and Jason Cabañes, and Wendy Brown.
DigiLabour is looking into worker-owned platforms in Brazil.
Vice wrote about gig work organizing in Latin America and talked a lot about the Anti-fascist deliverers.
Rafael and his colleagues also looked at political struggle around gig work and the importance of communication.