WORK AND EDUCATION IN PRE-CAPITALIST SOCIETIES

Abstract

Work and education are understood as essentially human activities and, moreover, as elements that characterize human nature. Given this intimate relationship between the species and the referred activities, we established in this research as true the premise that the human being, as long as it is understood, works and educates. That said, this article aims, from the perspective of Geography of Work, to understand how work and education were externalized in the forms of pre-capitalist social organizations. For that, qualitative bibliographical research was developed, anchored, above all, in the historical-dialectical movement from the ontological conception of the social being. It has been demonstrated that, from primitive communism to the end of the Middle Ages, human beings, in fact, worked and educated. However, the ways of developing these activities were changing to adapt to the realities and needs of the current production method in each of the historical moments.