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Author Braverman, Harry

Title Labor and monopoly capital : the degradation of work in the twentieth century / Harry Braverman ; foreword by Paul M. Sweezy ; new introduction by John Bellamy Foster
Edition 25th anniversary ed
Published New York : Monthly Review Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 338 pages)
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Labor -- History -- 20th century
Capitalism -- History -- 20th century
Division of labor -- History -- 20th century
Machinery in the workplace -- History -- 20th century
Industrial management -- History -- 20th century
Working class -- History -- 20th century
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Capitalism
Division of labor
Industrial management
Labor
Machinery in the workplace
Working class
Arbeiterklasse
Industriearbeit
Kapitalismus
Sociology: work & labour.
20th century, c 1900 to c 1999.
Political science & theory.
Labour economics.
Economic theory & philosophy.
Microeconomics.
Finance.
Industrial relations, health & safety.
Industry.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 98046497
ISBN 9781583673751
158367375X
9781583673744
1583673741