Jörg Nowak and Marco Santana (2023) "Social Media and Collective Action in Brazil" Socialism and Democracy

Nowak, Jörg and Marco Santana. 2023. “Social Media and Collective Action in Brazil: The Experience of Truck Drivers and Delivery Workers.” Socialism and Democracy, online first, 17 May, pp. 1-21. 

Introduction

Collective action by workers and the role of social media have received increasing attention in the recent years (Lazar et al. Citation2018; Garelli Citation2020; Maffie Citation2020). This research is embedded in a larger literature about the logics of connective action (Bennett and Segerberg Citation2012) which are distinguished from an earlier logic of collective action (Offe and Wiesenthal Citation1980) with connective action exhibiting a specific organizational dynamic.

In this article, we address the experiences of delivery workers and truck drivers in Brazil with social media as an instrument of workers’ organizing and an element of collective action. We will ask more specifically about the role of social media in the 2018 truckers’ strike and the 2020 national strike of app-based delivery workers, Breque dos apps (Apps Brake). We explore both the possibilities and limits of the use of social media for worker action.

Jörg Nowak (2023) "The Pandemic Politics of the Bolsonaro Government in Brazil"

Nowak, Jörg. 2023. “The Pandemic Politics of the Bolsonaro Government in Brazil: COVID-19 Denial, the Chloroquine Economy and High Death Rates.” Pp. 105-23 in The Political Economy of Global Responses to COVID-19, edited by Alan W. Cafruny and Leila Simona Talani. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Addresses how different political regimes tackled the pandemic

• Looks at the global response to the pandemic and tackles the political economy response to COVID 19

• Covers all global regions based on rigorous primary research

Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)