Abstract

TAKAKI, Katsumi Taís  and  ANTLOGA, Carla Sabrina Xavier. Capitalism and work: relations of precarity in postmodernity. Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) [online]. 2021, vol.27, n.1, pp. 112-125. ISSN 1677-1168.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5752/P.1678-9563.2021v27n1p112-125.

The aim of this article is to discuss the advances and contradictions of the capitalist system, using the changes that took place in society after the crisis of feudalism as a reference. As a theoretical study carried out through literature narrative review, it presents a critical analysis of capitalism development and the belief in the progress of mankind. It is considered that such progress has occurred through practices of domination and exclusion, with the emergence of social stratification which intensified the precariousness of relations, including the labour sphere. The control over body, rhythms and productivity, so far inherited from the factory context, becomes insufficient, and inaugurates a stage of appropriation of subjectivity and affection. Therefore, the notion of freedom of choice proves to be truly fragile and alienated in a consumer society, a patent reality in the relations settled among the worker and the organization.

Keywords : Capitalism; Work; Precariousness.

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