Labor and monopoly capital : the degradation of work in the twentieth century
This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverman, whose years as an industrial worker gave him rich personal insight into work, Labor and Monopoly Capital overturned the reigning ideologies of academic sociology. This new edition features an introduction by John Bellamy Foster that sets the work in historical and theoretical context, as well as two rare articles by Braverman, ""The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century"" (1975) and ""Two Comments"" (1976), that add much to our understandi
eBook, English, 1998
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Monthly Review Press, New York, 1998
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1 online resource (xxvii, 338 pages)
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Cover; Contents; New Introduction; Foreword; Introduction; Part I: Labor and Management; 1 Labor and Labor Power; 2 The Origins of Management; 3 The Division of Labor; 4 Scientific Management; 5 The Primary Effects of Scientific Management; 6 The Habituation of the Worker to the Capitalist Mode of Production; Part II: Science and Mechanization; 7 The Scientific-Technical Revolution; 8 The Scientific-Technical Revolution and the Worker; 9 Machinery; 10 Further Effects of Management and Technology on the Distribution of Labor; Part III: Monopoly Capital; 11 Surplus Value and Surplus Labor. 12 The Modern Corporation13 The Universal Market; 14 The Role of the State; Part IV: The Growing Working-Class Occupations; 15 Clerical Workers; 16 Service Occupations and Retail Trade; Part V: The Working Class; 17 The Structure of the Working Class and Its Reserve Armies; 18 The ""Middle Layers"" of Employment; 19 Productive and Unproductive Labor; 20 A Final Note on Skill; Appendix 1: Two Comments; Appendix 2: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z