O processo de plataformização do trabalho do intérprete de Libras: relação entre condições de trabalho e digitalização

Abstract

The research aims to analyze the process of digital platform strategy of the work of Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) interpreters. The central hypothesis is that the platform thinking process constitutes and develops the digitiszation of the productive base, which presupposes algorithm ais a means of production, and that the automation of machinery processes requires human work. Based on this, the trend that appears is the massive replacement of Libras interpreters workers by hardware and software structures, since, through work on platforms of digitisation of productive base is determined by capital, given the impossibility of it without biological workers to it. According to Historical and Dialectical Materialism (MARX, 2017; MARX, 2008; ENGELS, 2020; GRAMSCI, 1999) and through the categories totality, work, mediation and contradiction, we proceeded with documentary analysis, academic review and interviews. We showed that the work of Brazilian Sign Language interpreters is becoming a digital platform due to the specific characteristics of services provided through those platforms. On the one hand, while precarious labor relations through pejotização ("independent-contractors-only hiring policy" phenomenon) and unilateral determinations rather than the worker are crucientral, the production and storage of production data in Libras through digital platforms is central to the digitisation process, which, in addition to the apparent innovation, it carries in its essence the precariousness of working conditions, the destruction of traditional labor rights and multitasking. The trend that appears is the replacement of Libras interpreters from the community context, mainly in the educational area, in which this worker is fundamental, determining the constitution and development of the interpreter in Education and in a welfare way. Therefore it’s the organization of workforce of Libras interpreters with civil society institutions, in which debate and concrete actions must be built for better working conditions and struggle around real elements of the Libras interpreter's work.