RAFAEL VERSOLATO GILBERTO

The aim of this research is the organization and structure of Marx's Book I of Capital. The main objective is to show that section VI, about the wage, has an indispensable function to the structure of the Book I, since it articulates different levels of abstraction essential to the consolidation of capital. Wage investigation leads to its examination in its objective form of existence, that is, as money. As an expression, crystallized in the form of an object, of the way in which men living in society produce and reproduce their lives, money reveals, when examined, that it conceals the loss of objective existence of the isolated individual, the employed, thus ensuring its assent, a necessary factor for the reproduction of capital.