“Anche lo studio è un mestiere”. Istruzione e lavoro a partire dagli scritti di Karl Marx e Antonio Gramsci.

The writings of Karl Marx highlight a relationship between work and the subject’s education that can be summarized as follows: precise conditions are necessary for the workers, through work and education, to find the way to their liberation, without being alienated from the capitalist mode of production. The Marxian proposal represents a demanding legacy for a part of twentieth-century theoretical reflection, which continues to devote much interest to the relationship existing between school, work and the process of liberation of the subaltern classes. One of the most original interpretations is provided by Antonio Gramsci, for whom the educational themes are central. The goal of this essay is to highlight how, in the writings of the Sardinian intellectual, the scholastic question is firmly connected to those of the formation and role of the intellectual class and the emancipation of the working class.