Digital platforms: between finance and work
Marcelo Manzano
April 6th at 3pm
Amphitheater 4.1.
Summary:
In the last decade, with the development and dissemination of "digital platforms", we have been witnessing a series of transformations in the competitive dynamics of companies, leading to what some authors already call the platformization of the economy and that, due to its generalization and amplitude, has been configuring very particular ecosystems for the reorganization of goods and services markets. Among the main manifestations of this new dynamic of accumulation, the following stand out: transfer of risks and burdens to the most fragile participants in the production and commercialization circuits; new forms of workforce management; innovative and aggressive value extraction strategies; new and intense connections between operating earnings and fictitious valuation. As platformization consolidates, it becomes increasingly clear that we are not just facing another technological revolution that alters the technical bases of production, but a profound redefinition of the very status of capitalist companies, impelled by the power of finance to assume new functions and reinvent themselves. It is to better understand this new metabolism of organizations that work with digital platforms that we propose debate and invite reflection.
Biographical note:
Marcelo Manzano: economist, Master in Social and Labor Economics and PhD in Economic Development from the State University of Campinas (Brazil). He was a consultant for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in 2010 and for the International Labor Organization (ILO) between 2013-2018. Since 2011 he has been a collaborating professor at Unicamp's Institute of Economics, working in the following graduate programs: "Masters in Social Economy and Labor" (agreement with the Global Labor University) and "Specialization in Labor Economics and Unionism". Since 2019 he is also a professor of the postgraduate program at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO / Brazil). As a researcher, he has worked on the following topics: economic development; Brazilian economy; labor market; digitization of work; informality; inequality and public policies. In public management, he worked in the areas of health, professional training, microcredit and promotion of work and income. Currently, he participates as a researcher in the Latwork project (Erasmus +) and carries out a post-doctoral internship at the Center for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra.
Organization
Course unit of Sociology of Organizations (Degree in Sociology) and Doctoral Program in Sociology: Labor Relations, Social Inequalities and Unionism
