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Growing e-Commerce and Diminishing Labor Rights: Platform Work in Argentina

This paper presents a feminist analysis of the tensions and disputes around the regulation of platform labor, particularly in the context of delivery workers in Argentina. The first section outlines the strategies deployed by powerful transnational or trans-Latin corporations to lobby against
regulations directing them to take on the responsibilities of employers, with an eye on increasing their profits. The second section examines the forms of labor regulations and social protections that would be essential for platform workers in the post-Covid context, taking into account inequalities that lie at the intersections of gender, race, class, and immigration status. The final section then disputes this socalled new normal for work from a feminist perspective and a Global South framework, and lays down the conditions that would lead to a more just and equitable agenda. The paper uses Argentina as a case study, bringing it in conversation with other Latin American countries where signs of working-class precariousness under platform capitalism are similarly evident (Srnicek, 2018).