Dear readers,
With this new digital edition of the Revista Trabalhista (Labor Review), ANAMATRA concludes a movement of critical engagement with the new technological basis of capitalism and the challenges imposed on human societies, frayed in their covenants of coexistence. While developed societies, members of the central core of capitalism, face challenges to their systems of political representation and the exercise of social rights, peripheral societies and those late to join the political covenants of representative democracy have begun to experience social and institutional regression, partially stemming from oversight institutions, such as the Judiciary in Brazil.
However, the challenges in the field of social law have intensified, since, in addition to the wave of challenges to social rights, the digitalization of social life has brought new dilemmas to access to justice in its broadest sense, such as digital literacy, evidence production, and the widening of the asymmetry between litigants, especially when large institutional and economic litigants are involved. Access to data has become a fundamental element for building cases, producing evidence, and obtaining fair, swift, and effective judicial delivery. At the same time, the development of digital data mining technology confronts and often undermines personality rights, established as fundamental rights or constitutional guarantees, historically and culturally constructed as civilizing milestones for the rights of freedom and equality among human beings.
In this volume, judges and other legal professionals, with or without a background in academia, delved into the structure of labor relations in digital platform environments, access to justice, the protection of human privacy and personality and their digitalized lives, the production of evidence, jurimetrics, and artificial intelligence. Without intending to exhaust this brave and frightening new digitalized world, Anamatra hopes to have contributed to providing all those working in the legal field of the labor market with the cultural and critical tools to participate in debates and act in the relentless defense of the democratic rule of law and its most structural and civilizing facet: the right to decent and free work. Enjoy your reading!
Enjoy your reading.
July 2023.
The Editorial Board