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XXIX.4 July - August 2022
Page: 87
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Beyond platform cooperativism: Worker-owned platforms in Brazil


Authors:
Rafael Grohmann

Platform cooperativism is the union of technological potential with the strength of the cooperative organization. Worker-owned platforms can be laboratories, building local experiences to challenge the dominant dynamics of gig work. They can reinvent local economic circuits of production and consumption through platforms and improve working conditions while promoting mobility policies and improvements in public transportation, care services, and integration into the health system. This is both a promise and a potential of platform cooperativism. Insights → The history of the Brazilian economy is found in the gig. → Groups in the Global South have built technologies and…




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