Harry Braverman (was Re: Labor: Menial vs. Noble)

[Dennis Breslin]

kelley wrote:
> 
> michael burawoy and his students carried on with braverman's work, labor
> process theory, etc.
> 
Burawoy, for me at any rate, had front-loaded so much theory and 
bad ones at that (his incessant Althusserian functionalism) that
his empirical work in Manufacturing Consent was merely window
dressing.  In retrospect, his work took labor process studies
into a dead-end.

Dennis Breslin