On April 1, Brazilian carriers organize a day of action where thousands of workers participate in pickets and protests at least 60 CitiesIn areas such as São Paulo reported a sharp drop of delivery. While companies respond to demands for better fees and conditions, stirring is a clear step for a process in the National Organization that begins with 2020.
Between 2016 and 2021, the number of people who work for shipping to Brazil apps Rose at 979.8%with the number of shipping and passenger drivers in the sector now about 1.4 million. This boom includes the time when the country finally felt the post-2008 recession effects. Economic, corruption and the Impeachment of then President, Dilma RousseffThe 13 years ended successful non-recent governmental governments (PT). In the following years, a series of austerity measures and labor reforms are set, the political spectrum continues to the right and the right libertarian politician Jair Bolsonaro chose president in 2018.
This sequence of events, and the new truth identified in the work of the platform, added to long-term traditions, a heritage of slavery, as soccerologist Francisco de Oliveira. said in the early 1970sno more archaic leadver as an obstructive condition for an inconsistent form of capitalist modernization. Since the years of 1980, those who think in Brazil and abroad speak about the increasing casualty of neoliberalism as a continuance “Brazilian in the world“.
The loss of protections and rights is not, however, interpret additional support for unions and left parties. In contrast, it is one of the new masses of the workers in the plete that Bolsonaros found some of his staunchest support. In part, it is because many regrets the crisis that brings them to this type of work in PT. But this event, which can also be followed by Argentina with javier miles and elsehave deeper roots.
It is a long-term effect on how many decades of neoliberal dominion and discourse have affected the ways in which people are related to themselves and each other. It can be defined as an internalized “Neoliberalism from below“, Where self sees as a trader – instead of a worker, or a workman or poorer who changes traffic laws. There is a useless threat, justifying heavy policing or even carrying a weapon.
All it makes the authorities in the right, pro-entrepreneur, anti-organized labor message that can attract even those who work in the most probable settings. Wherever it is more obvious than the road This cohort replied to cohvid: While Bolsonaro’s Opposite to sanitary origins raised his popularityThe more careful methods taken in Argenta Alberto Fernández produces bad workers who are more open to the hardline of Milei Laissez-Fairism.
Even Luiz Continent Lulali Da Silva Bolsonaro defeated To return for a third term of 2022, this flow is still apart from the EBB. Even worse, stubbornly inflation and a lack of performance meant that Lula lost land in the country’s most poorly in two decadeslost 20% permit permit Among those who earn fewer than two minimum wages.
Perhaps gig workers’ attitudes are unlike mostly thoughtful. Shows that in a 2024 survey 67% of the working own Brazil workers want a formal contractwith the number to climb 75.6% among those who earn the minimum wage or less. But it can’t get away to see cyclists and motoboys . Named in online coaches and the The Gospel of Prosperity In evangelists’ churches, it is not relied on collective solutions, and who accepted the struggle for survival as a natural fact that would be gamed, not questioned.
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All of this means that, although they organize, the politics of couriers may not be considered. It demands best conditions, but turn off the loss of autonomy related to regular jobs; It fell between the couriers view as a class and as a collection of individuals. Long turnover and small collective identity mean some people staying adequate in line for organization and experience to improve. And however, precisely because they are so large and paradigmatic in the way economic action – not just the BraarilBut in any country where casualtialization and platform work will improve – finding ways to reach it is an important challenge for nothing.
While Brazil’s first one day, decentralized national strike by shipping drivers Of 2020 suggests that a quick identifiable form of the class politics – with short group emergency Antifascist couriers (Anti -fascist delivery) and its leader, Paulo Rooster – The reality ever remains harder to read. But there is interesting experiments who are more likely to organize workers who are more determined, and away from calling away right.
While so many of Platform Copies That has grown to withdraw 2020 miliers does not last long, some attempts to make worker making services, some of their own apps and data controls, live. These include League CoopA 2,700-member of a strong federation of cooperatives in the riding three states, and Girls girlsa bicycle courier service by female CIS and people who existed in São Paulo since 2017. Outside of the circulation sector, Bribes of those who struggles A chatbot made by the movement of homeless workers (MTST) to connect people who seek services from building activists of activists of activists of activists who have activists who have activists who have activists who have activists who have activists who have activists who have activists who have activists who provide them.
In last year’s Municipal Elections, The Scramble for a place in the final round of São Paulo’s mayoral contest between Mtst’s guilherme Boulos, who promised Rest Stops, and Internet Coach Pablo Marçal, who sells the entrepreneurial dream that lures gig Workers and Beyond, provided a good picture of the fight over the urban precariat. Boulos beat Marçal, but the head-to-head vote is lost against bolsonaro supported. The story of hope, however, comes from success in Life is more than workingstarting as an online campaign against six days of the week usually in the service sector, and since collected almost 3m signature In support of a bill to limit the working week of 36 hours, finally presented in February this year. The 30-year-old Rick AzevedoBuilding the movement while working in retail, with a telikok video that made him a viral sensation, was the most chosen city of Rio Geiro.
While there are all potential internet-based internet, the campaign as the first time during work periods, fighting a position not found as anti-worker – in the front worker. In addition, it was buried in social media, a land because most of Bolsonarus served properly. It does not only testify that many will get if not ready to continue to sin, but no doubt leaves important lessons how it can be done.
