Do táxi convencional ao serviço de transporte por aplicativo: recrudescimento ou nova precarização do trabalho?

Abstract

The present research starts from the following research problem: to what extent does the transition from the conventional taxi transportation service to transportation by application impose on the respective workers a resurgence or a new precariousness of relations and working conditions? In such a way that, using bibliographic research, analysis of documents such as legislation and jurisprudence, as well as semi-structured interviews, the study seeks to investigate whether the arrival of the application in the individual transport segment has brought an increase in professional activity or ended up creating a new job insecurity. It goes through an analysis of the evolution of urban centers and the need to transport people, the origin of the sharing economy and the development of application companies, the alienation and metamorphoses of the labor market, the subjectivity of subjects and how the elements of the bond employment are analyzed before the Labor Court. Its geographical space is the work of professionals in this segment in the city of Porto Alegre, starting in 2015, when the most comprehensive company in the sector, Uber, started to provide the service in the city. As a research method, from the perspective of critical thinking to analyze reality, dialectical historical materialism is used.