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The meaning of labour: the production of values as a semiotic production in informational capitalism

  • Marcos Dantas
  • Marcos Dantas

    Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)



Abstract

In advanced capitalism, in all industries the labour process has become essentially semiotic, that is, in all steps of the productive chain, from engineering to machine adjustment and control, workers are employed to process information to which they can attribute meanings related to concrete labour situations. Understanding this process helps to understand the Marxian concept of concrete labour and can contribute to a better understanding of the nature of the informational capitalism that has been emerging in the beginning of this century.

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