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The article analyses a recurrent question about the loss of centrality of labor with technological innovations and immaterial labor, both from a theoretical and empirical point of view. Theoretically, the centrality of labor is discussed both in relation to the theory of labor value as a form of social domination in capitalism, and in relation to the limits of technological unemployment in this mode of production. Empirically, the article presents world and Brazilian economic data on the main causes of unemployment, comparing them with technological unemployment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Banco do Brasil's Carteira de Crédito Agrícola e Industrial (CREAI) was the most important institution for financing production in Brazil until the creation of the BNDE in 1952. However, the work aimed at evaluating its performance is still scarce, even in the face of his contribution in the period from 1937 to 1969, marked by the Import-Substituting Industrialisation and developmentalism. The main hypothesis points out that, despite having innovated by institutionalizing credit for production for the first time, the main limiting factor for CREAI's performance was its funding structure. The primary source is the Banco do Brasil reports presented at the General Shareholders' Meetings, using here the statistics of financing of economic activities and resource structure. The results confirm the hypothesis but also highlight that the predominance of the agricultural sector cannot underestimate the importance of the portfolio to industry financing, for the first time in an official way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]