ONTOLOGICAL WORK AND THE MEANINGS OF LABOR IN THE CAPITALIST MODE OF PRODUCTION

Abstract

At the global level, the rights of the working class have been attacked by governments of different political matrices. In Brazil this is no different. Recently the government of then- President Michel Temer approved in the National Congress the labor reform, which retired the rights of the worker. This reform was carried out under the justification of leveraging the country's economic development and, consequently, generating jobs. This research aims to: a) to discuss, in the light of Marxist theory, the Ontological foundation of work and the work process in the capitalist mode of production (MPC); b) to encourage discussion about the ontological sense of work; and c) to establish a comparison between the ontological nature of work and the nature of the work in the MPC. Methodologically, this is a bibliographic, qualitative and exploratory research; theoretically, it is based on works by Karl Marx, Karl Marx and Engels, Ricardo Antunes, Sérgio Lessa, among others. We conclude that, at the present moment, it is not enough that workers claim only improvements in working conditions and wages, it is necessary to radically transform work and production relations.