Rationalization (was: Middle Class)

[James Farmelant]

Kelley might want to take a look at Harry Braverman's book,
_Labor and Monopoly Capital_  (NY:  Monthly Review Press, 1974).
There Braverman discussed such issues as the intensification
of the division of labor under capitalism, the struggle by capital
to transfer control of the labor process from workers so it
could be bested in the hands of management, the rise of Taylorism
and the uses of technology in order to enhance management
control over production. Also, Braverman broadens his critique to 
encompass the emergence of thee "universal market"
and the commodification of life itself.

Kelley maight also want to take a look
at the January issue of Monthly Review, which is devoted to
looking at Braverman's work, twenty-five years later.

		Jim Farmelant

On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 10:54:22 -0500 d-m-c at worldnet.att.net writes:
>What Gar and others have been typing about is the *division of labor* 
>about
>which Marx and Engels wrote:  "the division of labor implies the
>possibility, nay the fact that intellectual and material
>activity--enjoyment and labor, prodution and consumption--devolve on

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