Research conducted by the Labor Law Clinic at UFPR, entitled Work Controlled by Digital Platforms: Dimensions, Profiles, and Rights, demonstrates how digital platforms use structural informality to intensify workers' labor and insecurity, paying them very little.

Researchers focus on the economic and social dimensions of digital platforms, estimating the magnitude of work in this sector and identifying a highly unstructured and informal labor market.

The study also reveals the imbalance between labor and platforms, which hold power and control over workers through algorithmic management.

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the expansion of platform-controlled work, whose structural features of the labor market have been amplified.

The research analyzes, empirically and theoretically, the impacts of technologies on work, organization, and relationships produced by the third and fourth "industrial revolutions" (both linked to digital transformation), contextualized in the second half of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century, also observing the effects of changes in the regulatory frameworks of Brazilian labor.

Finally, there is an emphasis on the urgency of legislation that guarantees fundamental rights to workers, such as health protection, the possibility of collective representation, and the right to minimum wages for workers who perform activities for digital platforms.