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 Twenty-fifth anniversary edition Published New York : Monthly Review Press, [1998] ©1998

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MELB	331.0904 Bra/Lam 1998		AVAILABLE

Description xxvii, 338 pages ; 23 cm Contents New Introduction / John Bellamy Foster -- Foreword / Paul M. Sweezy -- 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 -- 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 -- 11. Surplus Value and Surplus Labor -- 12. The Modern Corporation -- 13. The Universal Market -- 14. The Role of the State -- 15. Clerical Workers -- 16. Service Occupations and Retail Trade -- 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 -- App. 2. The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Labor -- History -- 20 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. LC no. 98046497 ISBN 0853459401 paperback

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