Sewing the citycrisis of capital, logistical urbanization, and app-based delivery workers

Resumo

In the context of the recent transformations undergone by work in Brazilian metropolises, there has been a multiplication of precarious jobs related to circulation of goods. The crisis of capital and of the value-form seem to be giving rise to the need of efficient circulation as a condition for accumulation, which is reflected in the so-called logistical urbanization. The article presents an interpretation of these processes based on Lefebvre’s levels of analysis of the urban (G-M-P). By exploring the relationship between crisis of capital, logistical urbanization, and the everyday dimension of app-based delivery workers, we conclude that the precarization of work and the production of logistical infrastructures emerge as material expressions of the increasing crisis of the valorization of value; at the same time, they alter the forms of struggle of the working class.

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Tipo

Artigo científico

Ano

2023

Instituição

Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo

Fonte

Cadernos Metrópole

Idioma

Português

Acesso

Não informado

DOI

10.1590/2236-9996.2024-5905

Identificador

oai:ojs.revistas.pucsp.br:article/61097

Licença

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

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Palavras-chave

precarização do trabalhoprodução logística do espaçocrise do capitalautonomia negativaprecarization of worklogistical production of spacecrisis of capitalnegative autonomy