Algorithms, labour and normative spaces: rebalancing power to ensure democracy at work
Artur, Karen ; Freitas, Ligia Barros de ; Ramos, Jean Filipe Domingos
Mediações - Revista de Ciências Sociais
2025
30
1-18
crowd work ; artificial intelligence ; democracy ; EU law ; workers rights
Employment
https://doi.org/10.5433/2176-6665.2025v30e52500en
English
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"Addressing concerns about the anti-democratic use of algorithmic management in labour relations, this article sets out to map the actions of actors in the world of work in order to redirect the studied institutional frameworks in a more protective direction. Working towards this aim, the authors outline the contours of these actions using materials found in the literature, produced by the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) and researched in public hearings in the Brazilian Supreme Court (STF) and Federal Senate. It observes that the efforts to put collective labour regulatory concerns on the agenda have been more successful in the European guidelines. This action is under strain in the Brazilian regulatory sphere of digital platforms and artificial intelligence (AI). At the same time, debates in the Supreme Court on the recognition of employment relationships and in the Federal Senate on AI indicate a process of diluting labour protections."
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