This paper analyzes the role of the body in the productive processes mediated by micro-electronics. Divided in three parts, it first shows how the body-labor relation is analyzed in the fields of labor and education, then focuses on authors who emphasize the presence of the body in the labor mediated by micro-electronics, who see this presence in the tacit knowledge required by work routines, to finally evidence some limits of these studies. It draws the conclusion that, although the studies on tacit knowledge have created bases to understand corporeality at work differently, such analyses should not be used as a justification to believe that labor organization is nowadays more human and that the division between manual and intellectual labor is outdated. The struggle to affirm or overcome this dichotomy occurs both historically and politically and it should not be regarded only as a philosophic, scientific or organizational issue.
Body; Labor; Labor and education; Tacit knowledge