Trabalho precário, espaço precário: as plataformas digitais de transporte e os circuitos da economia urbana no Brasil

Abstract

The article seeks to analyses the expansion of ridesharing platforms in Brazil, especially from Uber's pioneering. Initially, it discusses the uberization process as a result of new historical links between information, space and work. In a second moment, based on the theory of the two circuits of the urban economy developed by Milton Santos (1975), we aim to understand the local action of digital platforms, with emphasis on fieldworks in Belo Horizonte (MG). In doing so, the article proposes a debate on the active role of space in the strategies of digital platforms, once it is argued their dependence on the infrastructures and uses of the territory historically constituted. Finally, the text intends to contribute to the debate on the process of precarious work from the analysis of the precarious spaces in which it takes place.