RESCUE OF THE SPIRIT OF PALMARES: FROM THE PLATFORM COOPERATIVISM TO WORKERS' OWNED ORGANIZATIONS ANDOF THE WORKERS AS A FORM OF RESISTANCE.
Workers Owned Organizations; Platform Cooperativism; Cooperative; Platform Capitalism; Quilombos
This research proposes to examine the limits and possibilities for worker-owned organizations in the context of work mediated by digital platforms from the perspective of work and social rights. The investigation aimed to present an overview of worker-owned organizations in Brazil, through the presentation of some experiences of these organizations, from intersectional, decolonial and countercolonial lenses. By presenting the main aspects of a complex, interdisciplinary topic, the purpose is to interpret worker-owned organizations as an alternative to platform capitalism, despite its contradictions and obstacles. As an investigation method, in addition to bibliographical research, secondary source research was used, in which audios were recorded of the speeches of members of organizations owned by workers at three different events in which they debated the topic. In this way, this investigation is committed to: understanding what can be considered as organizations owned by workers; understand how worker-owned organizations relate to the solidarity economy and cooperativism; confront such experiences with the political construction of quilombos as the essence of American cooperativism, starting from a point of epistemological inflection; understand, in light of the concrete experiences analyzed, the limits of regulation applicable to cooperativism; expose, according to the data collected, the main potentialities, as well as the main challenges faced by worker-owned organizations.