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

[kelley]

At 02:14 PM 12/16/00 -0500, Dennis Breslin wrote:
>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.

guess a dissertation isn't exactly the place to look for what you want, 
eh?  as if the guy doesn't have a lifetime of other work that he's pursued, 
or even his own critique of his work... not to mention a load of students 
doing very empirical work.

kelley


>Dennis Breslin