Las paradojas intencionales de la mutación del capital

Abstract

This work discusses a series of contemporary mutations regarding the relationship between capital and labour based on an in-depth analysis of three paradoxes. First, the paradox of the investment of labour sphere and non-labour sphere components. Second, the paradox in which capital eases the explicit exploitation confined to the labour sphere while extending this exploitation into the non-labour sphere at the same time. Third, a paradox in which capital, in terms of immaterial labour, emerges by resorting to non-industrial disciplinary devices, which appear to be self-imposed by workers, thus hiding the continuous and ruthless capitalist exploitation suffered by human beings. Finally, and as a conclusion, some new labour resistance patterns will be explored.