Repartidores de aplicación en México: entre el individualismo imaginado de las plataformas y las resistencias comunitarias de los trabajadores.

Abstract

Digital platforms such as Uber, Rappi or Airbnb impose a labor model where workers are not recognized as such and do not have minimum rights. They are part of platform capitalism, a form of capital that uses digital technologies to impose a precarious employment relationship. However, faced with this model, application workers are beginning to organize and demand rights. In this article, I examine the ideology that platforms promote and the resistances of app distributors. I argue that, in the face of the imagined individualism of digital platforms, delivery people are recreating forms of community. They have not been passive or totally subaltern but are displaying different forms of antagonism and autonomy. The work is based on an ethnographic investigation with interviews and analysis of the documents of groups of Mexican delivery men, both in Mexico City and in New York.