The platformed class has two sexes

labor, algoritmization and resistance

Abstract

This article aims to highlight the incorporation of the gender issue into the work platform. The gender cutout within the mosaic of activities of the platformed work is still poorly guided and it is intended to contribute to overcoming this gap. It is argued that the way work is organized by platforms, intertwined with the absence of a labor and social protection network, contributes to women being more affected in this model, updating and deepening the existing gender inequality in other labor configurations. The three main analytical axes of the article, work, algorithmization and resistance unfold on the hypothesis that the conformation of the worker on demand produces an ideal worker who, given the sexual division of labor, is not gender neutral.
Algorithmic management appropriates, organizes, and reproduces a set of already existing inequalities. It is demonstrated that the algorithmic responses to the wishes of capital have a gender bias. In the resistance to work stripped of rights, the question is what is the story that women build for themselves – in which strikes they engage, how they articulate, create strategies, and negotiate their visibility. To build these arguments, empirical data will be presented, collected from semi-structured interviews carried out with platform workers in the following activities: passenger transport, food delivery and manicures, working in the cities of Campinas/SP and São Paulo/SP.

KEYWORDS: Platform, Gender, Labor, Algorithmization, Resistance