Trabalho, tecnologia, capital: determinações de uma relação destrutiva revestida pelo desenvolvimento

Abstract

This dissertation talks about the technological development of the productive forces starting from the capitalist industrialization under the redirection of thesocial metabolism of capital. With the objective of analyze the functionality of technology for the capitalist development and its implications for the reproduction of the worker and the contemporary society, it is highlighted the capitalist use of technology for intensify the exploration and control of the work force. For this, it wasconducted a bibliographic research based in the Marx‟s social theory use his historical-critical analysis of the bourgeois society as well as in others contemporary authors. The ontological foundations of the work are seized for explain the development of the productive forces articulated the needs of the social reproduction and also demystify the veneer of neutrality of technology in the capital‟s reproduction process. It is demonstrated with the capitalist accumulation the development of the contradictory relation between the productive forces and the social relations of production. With the industrialization it was verified the technological advance of the productive forces as a mechanism of control and exploration of the work force and it is highlighted the overcome of material deprivation. In contrast, the poverty increasesin the same proportion of the accumulation of social wealth. We can see the significant development of the productive forces in the twentieth century with the science and technology‟s advance. It is developed a critical analyses about the theory that denies the work in the wealth production‟s process considering the knowledge as the source of social wealth. It is argued that the development of the information technology don‟t overcome the work, but intensify the exploration and the control using the free time‟s fallacy. With the productive restructuring it is revealed the destructive tendency of the capital reproduction starting from the utilization decreasing of rate of goods. Under the logic of expansive accumulation of capital it is observed a unsustainable development.