Futuro do trabalho e da educação

Early and direct contact with work anticipated concerns about job access requirements. From doubts about the validity of the Human Capital Theory, which would confirm the effects of school knowledge on access to formal work, I moved from the dramatic experiences of unemployment to more complex questions arising from theory. With Antunes and Braga (2009), and in contrast to Castells (2007), but mainly in line with Marx (2008) and Meszaros (2008), we consider that there is a tendency for a nonlinear but real deepening of the polarization of qualifications; in the progressive but finite absorption of living labor by dead labor; in residual magnification of complex and immaterial labor; precariousness and flexibility of work. From the theory I resist the apologies of the knowledge society of full employment (very leisure and high productivity), so that through research I foresee the combination of the singular movement, "forward", the productive forces, and universal, "backward”, of the social relations of production.