Abstract
The present work seeks to investigate the conditions of women workers who have entered the labor market in more precarious jobs as a result of the lack of policies to address co-responsibility for care work. These workers have resorted to remote jobs and work at digital platforms for being overloaded with unpaid care work, what limits their possibilities of entering jobs with extra-domestic working hours. So, women’s presence in less visible work platforms – for not being “on the street” – is evident. While allowing them to accommodate time and (paid and unpaid) tasks, it also places them in sectors that were socially assigned to them, thus reinforcing stereotypes and overloading their workdays. This reality requires new political and union strategies to render them visible and represented within institutions. There is a risk of emptying unions of women’s participation and of a gender agenda. The article takes up again the implications of a historical and ongoing debate that has become evident in the context of the global pandemic, regarding the so-called care crisis. The Covid 19 pandemic accelerated and made these debates more relevant than ever. The search for solutions is urgent, and this work proposes various strategies in the case of Argentina that should be promoted by unions, social and feminists’ movements, in order not to undermine the participation and rights of women & LGBT+ people, through digital platforms that isolate them in various virtual and remote jobs.
Key words
labour; platform capitalism; women; precariousness; trade unions