Immaterial labor: Marx and the contemporary debate

Abstract

Henrique Amorim's book, which is the result of his doctoral thesis defended at Unicamp in 2006, aims to critically discuss theories of immaterial labor, taking as its starting point an alternative reading of the Grundrisse, “a text that informs the theses on non-material labor”. centrality of work and also the theses of immaterial work” (p.22). Here lies, from the outset, a novelty in his work in light of the analyzes that criticize immaterial labor from Capital, questioning the use of an unpublished draft by Marx.