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Labor
and
Monopoly
Capital
The Degradation of Work
in
the Twentieth Century
Harry Braverman
25th Anniversary Edition
Foreword by
Paul
M. Sweezy
New
Introduction by John Bellamy Foster
(@
Monthly Review Press
New
York
New Edition Copyright
©
1998 by Monthly Review Press
©
1974 by Harry BravermanAll Rights Reserved
Library
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Bravennan, Harry.Labor and monopoly capital: the degradation
of
work in thetwentieth century / by Harry Bravennan ; foreword by Paul M. Sweezy: new introduction by John Bellamy Foster. -25th anniversary ed.
p.
cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-85345-940-1 (pbk.)
1.
Labor
History-20
cent century.
6.
Working
class-History-20th
century.
I.
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Acknowledgments
To
the following, for pennission to reproduce short passages from the worksnamed: Oxford University Press, from
White Collar
by C. Wright Mills,copyright
©
1951
by Oxford University Press; Division
of
Research
of
HarvardBusiness School, from
Automation and Management
by James Bright, copyright
©
1958 by the President and Fellows
of
Harvard College; University
of
Minnesota Press, from
The Sociology
o/Work
by
Theodore Caplow, copyright
©
1954 by the University
of
Minnesota; Harvard Business Review, from "DoesAutomation Raise Skill Requirements?"
by
James Bright, July-August 1958,copyright
©
1958 by the President and Fellows
of
Harvard College; ColumbiaUniversity Press, from
Women
and
Work in
America
by Robert
W.
Smuts,copyright
©
1959 by Columbia University Press; Public Affairs Press, from
Automation in the Office
by Ida
R.
Hoos.
Contents
New
Introduction
by
John Bellamy Foster
IX
Foreword
byPaul
M.
Sweezy
xxv Introduction 3
Part
1:
Labor and
Management
1 Labor and Labor Power
31
2 The Origins
of
Management
41
3 The Division
of
Labor 49 4 Scientific Management 59 5 The Primary Effects
of
Scientific Management 86 6 The Habituation
of
the Worker to the Capitalist Mode
of
Production 96
Part
11:
Science
and
Mechanization
7 The Scientific-Technical Revolution 107 8 The Scientific-Technical Revolution
10
Further Effects
of
Management and Technology and the Worker 117 9 Machinery 127 on the Distribution
of
Labor 163
Part
111:
Monopoly Capital
11
Surplus Value and Surplus Labor
175
12
The Modem Corporation179
13
The Universal Market 188
14
The Role
of
the State197