I.e., the show or play-acting of work. Ramirez, the new Capataz, represents the perfect smiling face of the loyal worker that socialism presents to outward society. Ramirez himself is not a socialist -- he embodies the superficial mask aspect with perfect sincerity -- but it's signifcant that Nostromo, the real socialist, can only train him in the "routine" of work, not its meaning.