Meanings, Regulations and Platformization of Work Practices in Portugal

This text aims to contribute to a better understanding of the crowd-sourcing para-digm, i.e., the use of subcontracting atom-ized individuals. To this end it is necessary to identify some of the constraints that restrict work mediated by digital plat-forms, to systematize their characteristics and ongoing processes. Such processes dialogue with claiming and organizing logics associated with concrete experi-ences and identities. Based on an analysis of normative documents, grievance sheets, manifestos and interviews with leaders of unions and workers' movements on digital platforms, the focus is on PHV drivers and food delivery couriers. It is argued that those protagonists of recent struggles in Portugal express distinct labor identities in a field where regulatory processes, protest agendas and forms of collective self-identification confront and influence each other reciprocally.