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Thinking about the future of work, and especially of work mediated by digital platforms, has never been as hopeless as it is today. The promise and threats of automation, the precarization of old forms of work – creative and cultural, for example – and the creation of new forms of digital work in slave-like conditions – all contribute to this scenario.

It is not new that the trade agenda is advancing over the rights agenda. Digital-related aspects have not been exempt from this dynamic, but some recent developments in international geopolitics made the last Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) a critical forum for discussions on the subject. Despite the many expectations surrounding the revision of measures that historically limit the action of States in the area of electronic commerce, the final decision was to maintain the status quo and, thus, to continue perpetuating historical inequalities.