Considerations about the concept of immaterial labor

In this article we intend to show as well as query the immaterial labor category, considering that such category has shown itself as historically central for the production process of capitalist wealth and capital accumulation in the last thirty years, approximately. The hypothesis of immaterial labor as central for the present historical context is, at the same time, linked with the subjectivity transformations, principally in the form of consumer role. In this sense we have investigated some issues that postulated for Antonio Negri, André Gorz and others. In our hypothesis of work, the concepts of cognitive capitalism and immaterial labor are entwinement, reflecting a new stage of capitalism history