Post-big industry: Immaterial labor and fetishism - a critique of A. Negri and M. Hardt

Abstract

In the book Império, Hardt and Negri define immaterial labor as work that produces, among other things, but in a special way, services: “As the production of services does not result in material and durable good, we define the work involved in this production as immaterial labor – that is, work that produces an intangible good, such as a service, cultural product, knowledge or communication”.