Igor Salles Barbosa
Organiser in Brazil’s Movement of Workers Without Rights and in Brazil’s Homeless Workers’ Movement (MTST). Political and social media advisor to left-wing politicians, especially around struggles to shorten the working week and the future of labour.
Beitrag
11.04
16:45
15min
Disputing Uber Drivers with the Far Right: Hacking Entrepreneurial Desire Toward Worker-Led Politics
Igor Salles Barbosa
Brazil has 1.5 million Uber drivers. But most of them tend to support far-right politics and oppose any kind of platform work regulation in the country. This talk shows how Brazil’s institutional left has failed to engage in dialogue with these workers, and why it matters to contest the communication and desires of Uber drivers, going beyond simply labeling them as precarious workers.
Arbeit
Seminarraum 7