O papel da força viva de trabalho no processo capitalista de produção - uma análise dos dilemas contemporâneos

Abstract

Marx explained, in chapters 11-13 ofthe first book ofCapital, the nature of the changes that the progress ofthe division oflabor imposed on the role of living labor force. He concluded that. with machinery, labor was fmally subjugated to capital. However, many things have changed since then. Workers had to adapt themselves to Taylorism and to Fordism, introduced at the beginning ofthe 20th century. More recently, workers had to adapt themselves to Toyotism and its hard demands. What are the meanings ofthese new transformations? The paper aims to discuss these questions. The mo/n idea is that with the recent changes. particularly with Toyotism, the living labor force was put in its adequate position, i.e., as a denied subject. So we can íook ali these changes as a "learning by doing" process. by means ofwhich the capital logic managed th/s functional result.