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The phenomenon of uberization of work has been studied to characterize the generalization of
work mediated by digital platforms with no employment relationship and with apparent
insubordination. The purpose of this research is to evaluate the uberization of work by
establishing a relationship with the transformations of capitalism in viewof the moral horizon of
contemporary society. The first analysis will be more general and will understand uberization as
a global phenomenon, but it will also stick to specific aspects of Brazil. This task will allow the
creation of a new theoretical panorama on the uberization of work, making it possible to arrive at
empirical research willing to qualitatively explore the influence of neoliberal discourse on the
subjectivity of Uber drivers, as well as to explore the experience and the psychosocial condition
of these workers. I will try to specify the work of a driver as an object of research, but also
placing it in the context of other categories of uberized work. I will therefore seek to understand
the drivers who work at Uber as their main activity as an ideal Weberian type. I propose the use
of two concepts as the central analytical key of this work: that of “unworthy work” (MACIEL, 2006)
that specifies the moral dimension of precarious work and that of a neoliberal subject ”(DARDOT
E LAVAL, 2016) that reveals a new condition of the man whose subjectivity is engaged in
behaving as an entity in competition. For the development of the proposed research, the first
methodological step is the bibliographic research that will comprise a section of discussions
about transformations of capitalism, work and uberization. For this, we make a brief theoretical
overview of the changes of capitalism and work, placing mainly the uberization in the new
capitalism described by Richard Sennett (2015) and in the neoliberalism described by Dardot
and Laval (2016). In the empirical part, this research proposes the qualitative method of in-depth
interviews, mainly inspired by the works of Jessé Souza in the Brazilian Ralé (2018), using the
semi-structured questionnaire as a methodological tool). Finally, partial conclusions point out
that the uberization trends are not close to ending, according to Dardot and Laval (2016), the
reference of public action is no longer the subject of rights, but a self-enterprising actor and this
reference has as its the effect of attacking the democratic logic of social citizenship, reinforcing
social inequalities and the social logics of exclusion that produce an increasing number of “sub-
citizens” and “non-citizens” or even “leftovers” as Robert Castel (1998) called it.