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Intended as a direct assault on management of blue-collar labor under capitalism, [3] Braverman's book started what came to be called, using Braverman's phraseology, "the labor process debate". [4] This had as its focus a close examination the nature of "skill" and the finding that there was a decline in the use of skilled labor as a result of ...
Labour process theory (LPT) is a Marxist theory of the organization of work under capitalism.Researchers in critical management studies, organization studies, and related disciplines have used LPT to explain antagonistic relationships between employers and employees in capitalist economies, with a particular focus on problems of deskilling, worker autonomy, and managerial control at the point ...
Illustration of Industry 4.0, showing the four "industrial revolutions" with a brief English description. Industrial sociology, until recently a crucial research area within the field of sociology of work, examines "the direction and implications of trends in technological change, globalization, labour markets, work organization, managerial practices and employment relations" to "the extent to ...
Harry Braverman's work Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century, published in 1974, was critical of scientific management and of Taylor in particular. This work pioneered the field of Labor Process Theory as well as contributing to the historiography of the workplace.
Harry Braverman (December 9, 1920 – August 2, 1976) [1] was an American Marxist, worker, political economist and revolutionary.Born in New York City to a working-class family, Braverman worked in a variety of metal smithing industries before becoming an editor at Grove Press, and later Monthly Review Press, where he worked until his death at the age of 55 in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. [2]
The distinction between labour and labour-power, according to Marx, helped to solve a problem that David Ricardo had failed to solve, i.e. explaining why the surplus value resulting from profit normally arises out of the process of production itself—rather than in the investment of capital (e.g. the advance of money-capital in the form of ...
This has led to an extension of theory to address what is called "monopoly-finance capital," the "internationalization of monopoly capital," the globalization of the reserve army of labor, and the growing monopolization of communications, most dramatically the Internet.
2. Mediation by Government 124; 3. Coercion by Government 139; 4. Unions of Government Employees 160; Chapter IV: THE MINIMUM WAGE 167 1. Economic Basis 168; 2. Historical Development 171; 3. Standards 179; 4. Methods of Operation 185; 5. Results 190; 6. Constitutionality 196; Chapter V: HOURS OF LABOR 200 I. Maximum Daily Hours 204; 2. Rest ...