SOC227H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Harry Braverman
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Core themes: process: power relationships in the workplace, attempts by owners and managers to control the labour, resistance to these attempts by workers, conflict , class groups. Value of a product was a direct function of the labour needed. Wage-labour produced > they needed to pay their wages . Employers exploit workers by keeping the profits from their. Purchasing power capitalists gain control over the labour to produce it surplus value labour process itself. No decision about what to produce and how to sell the products. Profits generated are remained with the owners. Workers are alienated from the product of their own work. Transfer of control over the labour process from individual workers to capitalist or managers. Separation of individual workers from others around them. Work transformed from a creative and collective activity to a individualistic, monetary activity become a commodity workers alienated from themselves. Working class members would overcome their alienation and rise up in revolt against their exploitation.
