A luta coletiva dos entregadores latino-americanos contra a pandemia do capitalismo – movimentos grevistas em tempos de covid-19

Abstract

The objective of the article is to understand the repercussions of delivery workers’ strikes during the Covid-19 pandemic, with a focus on international strikes in Latin America and on the stoppages in Brazil. The justification for the theme relies on its topicality and relevance in dealing with such emergent social issues. As for research methods, bibliographical review and empirical documentary research are combined (based on the material related to the summoning of movements by workers and the propagation of these acts by means of information). In the introduction, the methodological delimitations of the analysis are defined, as well as the critical approach that is intended to understand the strikes in the context of deepening contradictions of the capitalist mode of production (with a focus on the capital-labor conflict). In turn, the presentation is divided into three axes of analysis: the first axis maps the first three international strikes in Latin America; the second focuses on the movements carried out in Brazil; and the third concerns a critical approach regarding uberization. In the conclusion, the research hypothesis is validated by the confirmation that a trend towards internationalization of the collective articulation of deliverers by digital platforms is underway.