ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to propose the theoretical basis and elementary outline of alternative principles of labor. It synthesizes the discussion and returns once again to Marx to conceptualize alternative principles of labor. In order to overcome the limitations and create alternative principles of labor, it is necessary to rethink the "abolition of the division of labor", which was core to Marx's ideas on communism, but which is considered utopian today. The chapter explores and proposes some principles of labor in an alternative society. It focuses on labor: the organization of the labor process and the logic of socially distributing labor. On the contrary, of the post-work argument that preserves the character of labor as toil instead of aiming for overreaching social transformation, the "humanization of work" is an attempt to overcome the alienation within the labor process by focusing on the concrete labor process on the shop floor within the limitations of society today.
