Divisão do trabalho no capitalismo: a obra O Capital de Karl Marx

Abstract

The present work of our dissertation aims to track the movement of the division of labor at the entrance of capitalism, seeking to find the main internal causes in the work that culminated in the Industrial Revolution. In this way, we will use the work The Capital of Marx as the main bibliography of our investigation, from where the author himself arrives at the categories and consequences of this division in his historical time. What is evident from this is that cooperation and manufacturing are seen as decisive moments for the advance of capital in production, and consequently, transforming the workforce into merchandise. The development of the productive forces took place during this period through the collective organization of artisans and the development of work techniques. This long transition process that goes from the 16th to the 18th century, from the establishment of capitalism, is in the machine inside the work where the leap is possible to be taken, the leap towards the big industry. This is, according to Marx, the great possible force in which capitalism became victorious in the private ownership of the means of production, generating a universal alienation under society.