Trabalho, sindicato e consciência de classe: o debate (ainda) necessaário

Abstract

The article focuses upon the debate around the Marxist categories related to labor, labor unions and class consciousness. The author defends that the relevance of the above mentioned debate is reaffirmed in the present social context, which is characterized by the effects of capital's structural crisis (Mészâros) over all dimensions of the social being. From this theoretical point of view, it is stated that the labor category remains central to the understanding of the process of social reproduction, and, moreover, it reasserts the importance of the labor struggle towards the overcoming of the capitalist order. In this process labor unions play a most significant role concerning the development of class consciousness, against the dominant wave of mystifying paradigms and speeches about reality, undertaking the task of articulating immediate and historical interests, from the perspective of the working class.