Work and Consciousness

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There are some books—a very few-that explain so much that they are most likely to be criticized for not explaining everything. Labor and Monopoly Capital falls in this category; it can be faulted mainly for what it does not do, for failing to answer the questions it never raised in the first place. The most frustrating "omission" of this sort is the one which Paul Sweezy acknowledges in the book's foreword: the failure to analyze "the subjective aspects of the development of the working class under monopoly capitalism." (our emphasis) Yet we think that Labor and Monopoly Capital has a lot to say about the "subjective" issues which preoccupy socialist activists. Braverman does not give the answers (after all, he never raised the questions), but we will argue that he gives some pretty broad hints.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.

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