2020-11-172020-11-172013-09ARAUJO, Ronaldo Marcos de Lima. Universidade e trabalho: a função social da educação frente ao mundo do trabalho. Margens, online, v. 7, n. 9, p. 161-177, set. 2013. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18542/rmi.v7i9.2775. Disponível em: http://repositorio.ufpa.br/jspui/handle/2011/12824. Acesso em:.1982-5374https://repositorio.ufpa.br/handle/2011/12824We recoup the work concept as vital activity by means of which the man satisfies its necessities, produces the culture and institutions as the State, we rescue some theses on the relation between the work sphere and education sphere and, from the understanding that the function of the work and the education is to produce the humanizing, we problematized the manners as the work is being done at Brazilian Amazônia, marked for a predatory use of the work force and of the environment. Finally we raised some considerations about the necessity of the education in general and of the university, particularly, articulated with a social project of valuation of the work and preservation of the material and incorporeal wealth of Amazônia.Acesso Abertohttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/br/UniversidadeTrabalhoAmazôniaUniversityWorkAmazonArtigo de Periódico10.18542/rmi.v7i9.2775