Marx, maquinaria e grande indústria: o desenvolvimento tecnológico no Livro I de 'Das Kapital'

The present work recovers Marx's thought on technological development, from his famous 13th chapter "Machinery and large industry" (Maschinerie und große Industrie), which belongs to Book I of 'Das Kapital'. Throughout this work, fundamental questions such as capital accumulation, competition and (capitalist) compulsion for surplus value (absolute and relative), the role of class struggle in this respect and how social relations (of production) influence the technological development will be succinctly analyzed. In the end, the contradictions of technology are revealed given the capitalist social relations of production