Immaterial Labor and the Determination of Social Class

Abstract

In this article the concept of immaterial labor is dialectically related to the cycle of material labor in the production and reproduction of capital and bourgeois society. The article reflects on how this affects the dynamics of social classes and their struggles in contemporary capitalist society. Immaterial labor, like its manual counterpart, is also subject to capitalism's essential contradictions as well as its processes and tendencies. Various authors, including Latin American Marxists, are drawn upon to explore further this historical process.

Atualizações metodológicas para estudo do novo mundo do trabalho: revisiting da escala de indicadores de prazer e sofrimento no trabalho

“…Os itens 26 a 30 (construto que denominamos de desamparo profissional) foram inseridos no intuito de apreender a realidade dos tipos de trabalhadores e contextos laborais emergente nos últimos anos, seja em face dos avanços tecnológicos, da lógica do discurso flexível tendência no campo da administração de empresas contemporânea (Antunes, 2015, Aguiar & Santos, 2017. sendo a insegurança variável que já existia na escala original enquanto que a incapacidade tem sentido aproximado do item original "inutilidade" (Mendes, 2007, Oliveira, Resstel & Justo, 2014, Valencia, 2016, Siqueira, Dias & Medeiros, 2019. Development, v. 9, n. 8, e750986585, 2020 (CC BY 4.0) | ISSN 2525-3409 | DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.33448/rsd-v9i8.6585 Quanto aos demais procedimentos metodológicos, cabe destacar que esta pesquisa se utilizou plataforma Google Forms para elaboração e coleta de dados por meio de redes sociais (Facebook e WhatsApp) nas três primeiras semanas do mês de novembro de 2019.…”

Loneliness and Contemporary Work: Multiple Perspectives of Analysis

“…The attaching of new forms of significance to work touches on aspects of modern social life, in terms of physical space, hierarchies, innovation and relationships (Delbridge & Sallaz, 2015;Praun, 2016;Sewell & Taskin, 2015); the reinvention of productive forces and the exploitation of immaterial labor (Valencia, 2016); various types of cooperation/association (Garrett, Spreitzer, & Bacevice, 2017;Graceffa & Heusch, 2017); mobility, flexibility and virtual connections (Symon & Pritchard, 2015); affects that shape organizational life (Dashtipour & Vidaillet, 2017) and the logic of consumption (Bauman, 2003;Chertkovskaya, Korczynski, & Taylor, 2017). However, despite these diverse configurations, these changes "occur in the field of morphology, rather than in the meaning of work" (Valencia, 2016, p. 367).…”