摘要：This paper thematizework as an essential category in the human ontological process using as a figurative element of this theme the film "I, Daniel Blake", which is analyzed in the light of dialectical historical materialist theory.Throughout the text we address the relationship between biological and cultural aspects in human formation and development; the role of work as essential in the teleological process of building something not immediately given by nature; the liberating character of this activity which, unlike animals, prey to necessity, enables us to evolve beyond the immediate; the conditions of alienated labor as a threat to this freedom and the impacts of this form of expropriation on subjectivity.We discuss the current precariousness of the living conditions of the working classes.Strangeness as a causative element of conflict and suffering.The film “I Daniel Blake” demonstrates in an artistic way the situation of conflict and suffering experienced by many workers today.
