This article aims to problematize the limits of the relation between salaried work and the policies of professional formation of the teacher, in order to argue the importance of a radical transformation of the social relations of production to overcome the problems related to employment and teacher valorization. Through the analysis of the supply and demand of teachers / pedagogues in the labor market of the Brazil and, particularly, of the State of Paraná, in the period from 2009 to 2013, we

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... nsider that there is a tendency of professional devaluation originating from the very logic of the relations between labor and capital. In this sense, based on the analysis of reality subsidized by the methodological theoretical framework of Dialectical Historical Materialism, we defend a social organization based on freely associated work to overcome the limits of educational policies for teacher training and appreciation.