What Are the Impacts of the Click Farm Strike in Brazil?

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There was a click farm strike recently in brazil. The people are paid less than one cent fer task. People use more than one account, and mainly account. And it's very interesting because the people hired these platforms to don't use bots, because they want organic or real engagement on these platforms. But workers angry because it's very low pay. They alt sorts this tast for bots and use bots in sharing thep s of bot. Say, ok, now i am working with 200 of bots, 200 of accounts. This is not a real good job. I call these platforms as parasite platforms,. Because they depend onsocial mite platforms, inf structures and preside around workers too

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.