Fundamentos da subordinação do trabalho ao capital

Abstract

This dissertation presents the fundamentals of the development of the subjection of labour to capital from its genesis to its consolidation into the capitalist mode of production. The genesis is considered in this work from the moment when capital enters production and begins to directly exploit the wage worker and its consolidation, from the moment that capital execute its command over total social production. From this, we present the different conditions under which the exploitation of labour occurs in order to demonstrate the historicity of the subjection to which workers have been subjugated. Starting from the foundations of subjection contained in The Capital (book one) by Karl Marx, extracted through the methodological procedure of immanent reading, we carry out a bibliographical research on the object of research and complement it with texts by authors such as Maurice Dobb and Leo Huberman. Through this study, we could observe that the subjection of labour by capital assumes different configurations in production, however, it is based on two methods of exploitation of labour by capital, namely, the extraction of surplus value through the extension of the working day and the extraction of surplus value through the increase in labor productivity, which only occurs through the alteration of the technical basis and/or social groupings.