The ruses of the capital: a study on the entrepeneurs´s strategies at the potter - ceramic pole of the Metropolitan region of Manaus

Abstract

This article analyzes the strategies of capital over labor in the Pottery Pole of Metropolitan Region of Manaus (RMM), a sector that produces 80% of bricks and tiles consumed in the state of Amazonas. These strategies are related to the reorganization of the global process of capital accumulation based on the requirements of the new paradigms of manufacturing: flexibility, organizational innovations, new technologies, etc. The first of this work will show the insertion and the importance of production of bricks in the economic scenario of Amazonas. In the second part we will bring the contribution to the sociological understanding of the wiles of capital over labor, helping us to write, so the third section, where we will identify and problematize the organizing ways of capital in the Pottery Pole of the RMM.