Labor and Monopoly Capital
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This book first took shape in my mind as little more than a study of occupational shifts in the United States. I was interested in the structure of the working class, and the manner in which it had changed. That portion of the population employed in manufacturing and associated industries—the so-called industrial working class—had apparently been shrinking for some time, if not in absolute numbers at any rate in relative terms. Since the details of this process, especially its historical turning points and the shape of the new employment that was taking the place of the old, were not clear to me, I undertook to find out more about them. And since, as I soon discovered, these things had not yet been clarified in any comprehensive fashion, I decided that there was a need for a more substantial historical description and analysis of the process of occupational change than had yet been presented in print.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
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The creation and enforcement of organizational routines can be viewed as a primary mechanism for the domination of labor by management.
“The creation and enforcement of organizational routines can be viewed as a primary mechanism for the domination of labor by management (Braverman, 1974; Burawoy, 1979).”
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- Authors
- Braverman, H.
- Corresponding author
- Braverman, Harry
- Venue
- Monthly Review
- Publisher
- Monthly Review Foundation
- Published
- 1974-07-01
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 1
- ISSN
- 0027-0520 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2040493112
- Cited by
- 5,505
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 173.53
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Monthly Review (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political Economy and Marxism
- Social Sciences › Public Administration › Labor Movements and Unions
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
- Keywords
- career change, industrial working class, structural unemployment, labor history, United States labor market
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