A man is as man because he is able to produce his means of survival, among which work plays a central role in the constitution of society. It is through it that men "dominate" nature and place themselves in the position of lords before it. The fishing activity may be considered "secondary" in the interests of capital accumulation and it is precisely the reason why the study of the community of fishermen from the town of Matinhos, Paraná State, constitutes one of the prime locations to see how work (comprising the division of labor, technology and management form) and goods (comprising private property and the commodity fetish) constitute the multiple determinations of the real and are related to the process of social reification. The aim of this work is to understand the process of reification of traditional fishermen, the analysis of the categories defined as multiple determinations of the real, in view of its economic integration and social exclusion in the system of capital. The theoretical basis of the work consists of authors such as Marx, Lukács, Adorno, Faria, Horkheimer, Meszáros, and others. This is a qualitative research carried out in a community of fishermen. It was possible to verify that the reification among the younger fishermen takes the set of elements (related to labor and goods) responsible for the transformation of the subject into an instrument of capital. It is the transformation of the condition of the producer into the commodity, with all its properties. Reification is also related to the alienated labor and that, despite the hegemonic tendency of the capitalist system of production, it is possible to identify a resistance in relation to this process of reification. In short, there would be a reification which is related to the alienated labor and, despite the hegemonic tendency of the capitalist system of production, it is possible to identify a resistance against this process of reification.
Management; Artisanal fisheries; Reification; Alienation; Work
