Challenges in work environments brought by COVID - 19. The case of the plataforms

Abstract

Neoliberalism has promoted policies that have increased precariousness at work, accentuating the deterioration of workers’ living conditions. Since the World Health Organization (WHO) declares the global pandemic due to COVID-19, the impulse of teleworking by companies has created the conditions to extend the working day in homes and individualize labor relations.
The vision of Karl Marx on technology and its consequences towards workers is an adequate framework to study this phenomenon since it explains that as technology increases, there is a greater subordination of the worker to the machine more and more makes him dispensable, but at the same time time raises the necessary reconstruction of the collective worker.
This reconstruction, despite the difficulties and challenges imposed by technology, begins to manifest itself in the resistance of the workers. This work shows different advances in the reconstruction of the collective subject in the different struggles of the workers of the platforms that step by step advance in the construction of demands and collective organizations to defend their rights as workers.