Confronting Capitalism: How Work Got So Bad

<p>Why does every new technology seem to make work harder and not easier? In 1974, Harry Braverman published a seminal text <em>Labor and Monopoly Capital</em> to answer that question. Combining a careful study of scientific management and technological innovation with several of Marx’s key concepts, Braverman explained why workers under capitalism are gradually transformed into mere cogs in the machine.</p>

<p>On the latest episode of <em>Confronting Capitalism</em>, Vivek Chibber and Melissa Naschek discuss the process of managers breaking down workers’ skills and why work under capitalism tends to degrade rather than fulfill us.</p>

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<p><em>Confronting Capitalism with Vivek Chibber</em> is produced by <em>Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy</em>, and published by Jacobin. Music by Zonkey.</p>