The aim of this text is to discuss labor as an analysis category in the education of the visual deficient. In this sense, it indicates that the comprehension of the kinds of labor, in each moment of the human existence, reveals the social organization and the humanity history itself. Thus, from the concept of labor in Marx, there was a care to review the way of especial education, situating the organization of the production manners of society and the education of the visual deficient. It marks that the alternatives to overcome the labor difficulties and the possibility of social inclusion of the people with visual deficiency require investments in their education, in quality of life and their insertion in labor. It concludes that it is basically important the existence of an educational proposal that overcomes the exclusion and the necessity of transformation of the labor relation in capitalist society nowadays, as well as the establishment of a new political and social project.
Labor; Society; Education; Visual deficiency