Piece workers, contract tasker, day-workers, employees ... A reflection on wage labor over the centuries at the announced time of "the uberisation of the world". 1/2

The current tendency favouring the development of the micro-enterprise, of the self-enterprise, it is interesting to ask the question of the intertwining between wage statutes and system of solidarity, between wage statutes and development of the inequalities and / or mass pauperization of many low-skilled employees. What is "the uberisation of the world", if not the advent of the independent manager registered on a platform, but responsible for his gains, his losses, paid mainly to the results, to the commission, and no to fixed remuneration. The self-entrepreneur is free to organize his working time, within a connected mother structure, connecting workers and customers. In this scheme, the platform declines any responsibility in terms of results, guaranteed minimum wage, social rights, disrupting the labor code, which leads to the multiplication of referrals to the labor courts. "The uberisation of the world" is the return to decentralized work forms, liberalized both in their forms and in their support by social structures, echoing to a certain extent the workers' struggles for the introduction of a minimum tariff and of a labor right. The validation, in January 2019 by the French courts, of a contractual relationship between Uber and the VTC drivers could change the situation… and highlight all aspects of this precarious new entrepreneurship.