Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the by Harry Braverman

By Harry Braverman

This greatly acclaimed booklet, first released in 1974, was once a vintage from its first day in print. Written in an immediate, inviting manner by means of Harry Braverman, whose years as an commercial employee gave him wealthy own perception into paintings, Labor and Monopoly Capital overturned the reigning ideologies of educational sociology.

****This isn't the re-creation **** (with intro by way of John Bellamy Foster that units the paintings in old and theoretical context, in addition to infrequent articles through Braverman, "The Degradation of labor within the 20th Century" (1975) and "Two reviews" (1976), that upload a lot to our knowing of the book.)

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By Harry Braverman

This greatly acclaimed booklet, first released in 1974, was once a vintage from its first day in print. Written in an immediate, inviting manner by means of Harry Braverman, whose years as an commercial employee gave him wealthy own perception into paintings, Labor and Monopoly Capital overturned the reigning ideologies of educational sociology.

****This isn't the re-creation **** (with intro by way of John Bellamy Foster that units the paintings in old and theoretical context, in addition to infrequent articles through Braverman, "The Degradation of labor within the 20th Century" (1975) and "Two reviews" (1976), that upload a lot to our knowing of the book.)

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