The purpose of this article is to make explicit the actual meaning and the functional character of the composite constituted by an expressive set of initiatives for education and the training of the working class in Brazil today. To reach that goal, we present considerations about the concepts of capital-imperialism and uneven and combined development, as well as their expressions in Brazil, especially in the education and training of the working class. Thus, we seek to evidence how new forms of removal of the right to universal access to scientific and technological knowledge are generated in the scenario of subaltern capital-imperialism. Finally, we address the set of programs and actions undertaken by the federal government since the 1990s, which we have assembled according to their similarities.
education of the working class; education policies in Brazil; work and education