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Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century.
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First published in 1974, this text is written in a direct way by Harry Braverman, whose years spent as an industrial worker gave him insight into the labour process and the conviction to reject the reigning wisdoms of academic sociology. Here, he analyzes the division of labour between the design and execution of industrial production, which underlies all our social arrangements. This new edition features a new introduction by John Bellamy Foster, setting the work in historical and theoretical context, as well as two more articles by Harry Braverman.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Tomich, D., & Braverman, H.
- Venue
- Contemporary Sociology
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1976-11
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 735
- ISSN
- 0094-3061 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2016938270
- Cited by
- 2,985
- References
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- FWCI
- 97.85
- Type
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- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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