2025/08/14 by Eduardo Altheman Camargo Santos · 1 voice
Business, Management and Accounting · Social Sciences · #Digital Economy and Work Transformation #Management and Organizational Studies #Sharing Economy and Platforms
paper · pdf · doi:10.31269/gpz5xh58
openalex publication_date 2025/08/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
The article reflects on “platform capitalism” in the form of interrelated theses. I argue that, through legal artifices and technological innovations, the lean platforms’ modus operandi spreads precarious jobs while disseminating a neoliberal subjectivity among its “independent contractors”. I aim to bridge two usually isolated scholarships, namely, critical neoliberalism studies and platform capitalism inquiries. I address the subject from a systemic view that places the global South as the primary locus of lean labour platforms. This approach leads me to question current theses on platform capitalism studies and propose new ways to understand its traits. The article draws on international bibliography on the topic, as well as secondary empirical data and my own research with delivery platform workers in São Paulo.