The qualifying territories hypotheses in the work with information

Abstract

The paper addresses the new productive dynamics and labor configurations characteristic of the so called cognitive labor, which has the networks and relations built in the metropolitan territory among its main support. We examined these new configurations in articulation with the thesis of the “qualifying territories”, the place where new competences are modeled and return to the territory in the form of services that hold among their central elements the collaborative intelligence, creativity and innovation. Departing from these assumptions, we initiated a case study focusing the self employed digital workers who bear varied levels of education and specialization, regarded as fundamental agents for the development of the cognitive labor in contemporary metropolises. Preliminary results indicate predominance among these workers of a mix of two regimes of labor: autonomous and salaried, coextensively establishing a bilateral relationship. We could equally confirm the connection between new technologies and languages, collaborative networks, new productive dynamics and the possibility of learning from instability and constant mutations that characterize the informatics environment, rendered possible through the collective action, in the marks of cooperation and communication.