Trabalho, Educação e Saúde - TES (Work, Education and Health) is an open access scientific journal, edited by the Joaquim Venâncio Polytechnic School of Health, from Oswaldo Cruz Foundation.
Distance education has advanced in the Brazilian context, where it is perceived as the object of study in this essay. When considering the changes that took place in the teaching work process because of the distance modality, this study aimed to tension the development of the productivity of teaching work through its rationalization and its possible relationship with the value of the workforce in a broad sense. Specifically, it analyzes the functionality of education for the expanded reproduction of capital, as well as its positive contradictions and limits and having as its motto the Bologna process, the implications of an educational free zone. The main conclusions were: if, on the one hand, there is a democratization of access to education, the rationalization of work, in addition to enabling more accessible education, is immediately related to the precariousness and alienation of the teaching worker and, intrinsically and more broadly, with the decrease in the value of the general labor force, since there is a decrease related to the costs production of the labor force merchandise.
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