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.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Braverman, Harry, author.

Contributor:

• John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Labor--History--20th century.
• Capitalism--History--20th century.
• Capitalism.
• History.
• Division of labor--History--20th century.
• Machinery in the workplace--History--20th century.
• Industrial management--History--20th century.
• Working class--History--20th century.
• Working class.
• Division of labor.
• Industrial management.
• Labor.
• Machinery in the workplace.

Genre:

• Electronic books.
• History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 338 pages)

Edition:

Twenty-fifth anniversary edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Monthly Review Press, [1998]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in printing 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.

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.

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Braverman, Harry. Labor and monopoly capital.

ISBN:

• 9781583673751
• 158367375X

OCLC:

823170284

Publisher Number:

10.2307/j.ctt9qfrkf

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.

Online:

The John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund Home Page