Labor and monopoly capital
by Harry Braverman · first published 1975
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"This widely acclaimed work, first published in 1974, overturned the reigning ideologies of academic sociology and became the standard text for many basic areas of sociological inquiry, including the science of managerial control, the relationship of technological innovation to social class, and the eradication of skill from work under capitalism. A new foreword by John Bellamy Foster sets the work in historical and theoretical context. Also included are two rare articles by Braverman that add much to our understanding of the book: “The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century” (1975) and
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…citations: L. Pritchett, "Where has all the education gone?", The World Bank Economic Review, 2001, vol. 13, no. 3. https://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/85982146818027378... (PDF) Harry Braverman, Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century (1974) https://nyupress.org/9780853459408/labor-and-monopoly-capita... Stephen Marglin, "What do Bosses Do?", published in two parts in The Review…
on “Adult Literacy in the United States (2019)” ↗With respect to the post’s discussion of “surveillance capitalism”, Braverman in Labor and Monopoly Capital (published 1974, https://archive.org/details/labormonopolycap00brav) makes it clear that Capitalism (particularly with respect to the use of machines for worker exploitation) is never not surveillance.
on “LLM Inevitabilism” ↗…limit to capital.” The Accumulation of Waste, Kadri, https://brill.com/display/book/9789004548022/front-7.xml Monopoly Capitalism, Baran and Sweezy https://archive.org/details/monopolycapitale00bara Labor and Monopoly Capital, Harry Braverman https://ia801604.us.archive.org/12/items/023978561/Braverman...
on “How to Earn a Billion Dollars” ↗…polluted the term on the Internet, "antiwork" referred for years before the subreddit to a particular line of socialist thought that often rejects labor outright. Texts like The Right to be Lazy (1883), Labor and Monopoly Capital (1974), and Willing Slaves of Capital (2014) are all decidedly Marxist and indicate that this line of thinking has a pretty long lineage in socialist circles.
on “Reddit ‘antiwork’ forum booms as millions of Americans quit jobs” ↗