Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth CenturyThis 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 understanding of the book. |
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Page 324
... punching ( the operation of the machine which punches holes in the eighty - column standard data - processing card ) , the authors arrive at the following breakdown of the time needed to punch a numeric character : * Standard time ...
... punching ( the operation of the machine which punches holes in the eighty - column standard data - processing card ) , the authors arrive at the following breakdown of the time needed to punch a numeric character : * Standard time ...
Page 325
... punch machine is to be operated at the rate of 5 % strokes per second when purely numeric punching is being done . For the punching of alphabetical characters , however , one additional TMU per stroke is allowed for " mental time . " In ...
... punch machine is to be operated at the rate of 5 % strokes per second when purely numeric punching is being done . For the punching of alphabetical characters , however , one additional TMU per stroke is allowed for " mental time . " In ...
Page 332
... punching , therefore , is to describe the sort of work which , in this form or another , is growing rapidly in offices . The training required for this sort ... punch department 30 B rote bea : ca : b fac bol 332 Labor and Monopoly Capital.
... punching , therefore , is to describe the sort of work which , in this form or another , is growing rapidly in offices . The training required for this sort ... punch department 30 B rote bea : ca : b fac bol 332 Labor and Monopoly Capital.
Contents
Labor and Management | 43 |
Labor and Labor Power | 45 |
The Origins of Management | 59 |
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accumulation activities analysis assembly automatic Automation average Babbage become capitalist mode capitalist society census century characteristic Charles Babbage clerical workers clerks commodity conception corporation craft craftsmen division of labor E. P. Thompson economic employed employees employment engineering enterprise existence fact factory functions Georges Friedmann human Ibid increase industry Joan Woodward Karl Marx knowledge labor force labor power labor process machine machinery machinist manufacturing Marx Marx's mass means mechanical ment methods mode of production modern monopoly capitalism motion numerical control occupations Office Management operations organization output percent performed pig iron population principle problem production process punch result revolution Scientific Management skill Soviet standard statistics structure surplus surplus value systematic task Taylor technical therblig tion trade transformation trend United unproductive labor wage York