96. Production, Labor and Digital Technologies in Informational Capitalism. The World and Latin America
Carina Borrastero, CONICET / Universidad Nacional de Córdoba; Mariano Zukerfeld, CONICET, Universidad Maimónides; Hernán Morero, CONICET, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba; Natalia Berti, Universidad del Rosario, Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena
Posted: February 28, 2022 Accepted Languages: English/Inglés/Inglês, Spanish/Español/Espanhol, Portuguese/Portugués
We are witnessing the strong consolidation of informational capitalism (or digital, cognitive or surveillance capitalism, according to various authors) as a production regime characterized by unprecedented levels of concentration of corporate power and precarization of labor, magnified by the capillary penetration of digital technologies in economic life. Artificial intelligence, big data, machine learning, 5G and platforms are increasingly the underpinning part of production and labor, the deployment of which accelerated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Giant corporations driving global innovation and their associated imaginaries and discourses, a vast majority of companies adopting the technologies they develop, workers in various functional roles and working conditions, and States driving or seeking to attract investment and jobs, are all central players in the current processes of digitization of the economy and valorization of capital. However, structural inequalities between strata of workers, types of companies, and central and peripheral economies are becoming more acute, reinforcing the global subordination of historically dependent actors to large players capable of appropriating the macro-benefits of socially constructed technological changes. But since where there is domination there is resistance, it is also necessary to observe the strategies of transformation that the techno-economic paradigm can bring about. In order to generate diagnoses and identify these fissures, we receive theoretical and empirical contributions, in progress or completed, on the dynamics and actors of production and labor in informational capitalism, with special attention to its implications for Latin America.
