The digital plataforms of transport and the place of the black in the labor market

racism in the institucional configurations of labor in the 21st Century in Brazil

Abstract

The present work studied the digital platforms of transport of people and goods from the perspective of black workers. From empirical   data collected in research, the disparity of opportunity, treatment and income in the labor market between blacks and whites is raised in these modalities of work by digital platforms. The use of the technological tool, as another instrument of labor, does not mischaracterize work as precarious and informal, which is offered to the black as a way to remain segregated in the Brazilian labor market, being reserved a subordinate place. It turned out that blacks are overrepresented on the platforms in relation to the general labor market. It was found that it is a place of low-paid, with stifling days, without time off and without rights. In a comparative analysis with white professionals, even within digital platforms, blacks are in worse condition, receive less and suffer discriminatory treatments. Labor Law is proposed, with appropriate instruments, the challenge to deal with the situation, because the institutional design of work on a digital platform alone leads to structural racism.