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 34
... factory . The Special Task Force report at- tempts a summary of office trends in the following com- ments : The auto industry is the locus classicus of dissatisfying work ; the assembly - line , its quintessential embodiment . But what ...
... factory . The Special Task Force report at- tempts a summary of office trends in the following com- ments : The auto industry is the locus classicus of dissatisfying work ; the assembly - line , its quintessential embodiment . But what ...
Page 149
... factory without having enough workers to keep it humming . Ford admitted later that his startling factory innovations had ushered in the outstanding labor crisis of his career . The turnover of his working force had run , he was to ...
... factory without having enough workers to keep it humming . Ford admitted later that his startling factory innovations had ushered in the outstanding labor crisis of his career . The turnover of his working force had run , he was to ...
Page 181
... factory in these terms enables one to appreciate why the so - called automatic factory is far from automatic : only a portion of the economic task of the factory has been adequately constrained . People are needed to fill in many of the ...
... factory in these terms enables one to appreciate why the so - called automatic factory is far from automatic : only a portion of the economic task of the factory has been adequately constrained . People are needed to fill in many of the ...
Contents
Labor and Management | 43 |
Labor and Labor Power | 45 |
The Origins of Management | 59 |
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accumulation activities analysis 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 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 relations of production 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