| dc.description.abstract | The study addresses the phenomenon of the sharing economy that emerged
in the context of the fourth industrial revolution, as well as the problem of privatization
of the law resulting from self-regulation by private actors, in this case digital
platforms. These, driven by their network effects made possible by technologicalinformational-digital advancement, emerge as large transnational corporations,
capable of relativizing national territorial boundaries, as well as the regulatory
capacity of states. In this scenario, the thematic part of the research is made from the
analysis of the Uber platform, as well as its social and economic impacts, mainly in
the field of labor relations. In parallel, the research aims to understand the concept of
sharing economy; to relate the new form of economy (or new form of social
relationship) to the phenomenon of the privatization of law and the trend towards
monopoly capitalism, which in turn favors the uberization / precariousness of labor
relations. And, finally, it aims to present subsidies that serve the political debate with
regard to the forms of treatment, and / or ways of coping with the effects of these
new work relationships, whose - according to the outcome of the information
gathered here - were shown to be mostly negative effects, with the worsening of the
precarious ways of exploiting labor. The methodology used in the research is
predominantly exploratory, considering that it seeks to deepen the still preliminary
concepts of “uberization” and “sharing economy”, as well as, it seeks answers to the
problems raised from these. Also, the research is partly descriptive, as it aims to
describe the characteristics and behavior of the aforementioned phenomena, in the
Brazilian judicial scenario, especially from the inaugural decision of the Superior
Labor Court. The approach taken is qualitative with the use of documental, discourse
analysis and bibliographic methods. | en |
