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Rick Baldoz, Charles Koeber, and Philip Kraft.The Critical Study of Work: Labor, Technology, and Global Production. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2001. vii + 285 pp. $79.50 cloth; $27.50 paper.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 December 2003
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I read Harry Braverman's seminal Labor and Monopoly Capital shortly after it came out in 1974. I eagerly absorbed his account of how capitalists used technology to strip skill from workers, in order to cheapen labor and heighten managerial control over the work process. I read with interest how proprietors took the deskilling model developed in a blue-collar setting and extended it to clerical and service jobs, increasingly wiping out distinctions in the workforce.
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