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10. Further Effects of Management and Technology on the Distribution of Labor

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Braverman, H. (1974). 10. Further Effects of Management and Technology on the Distribution of Labor. In Braverman, H. Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century. Monthly Review Press, pp. 236-248

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The enormous and continuous growth in demand for engineers has created a new mass occupation. On the one hand, this has, along with other new professions such as accounting, given a place to those thrust out of the old middle class by the relative decline of the petty entrepreneurial occupations in trade and other erstwhile arenas of small business. But on the other hand, having become a mass occupation engineering has begun to exhibit, even if faintly, some of the characteristics of other mass employments: rationalization and division of labor, simplification of duties, application of mechanization, a downward drift in relative pay, some unemployment, and some unionization.

prescient

—p.242 by Harry Braverman 21 hours, 57 minutes ago

The enormous and continuous growth in demand for engineers has created a new mass occupation. On the one hand, this has, along with other new professions such as accounting, given a place to those thrust out of the old middle class by the relative decline of the petty entrepreneurial occupations in trade and other erstwhile arenas of small business. But on the other hand, having become a mass occupation engineering has begun to exhibit, even if faintly, some of the characteristics of other mass employments: rationalization and division of labor, simplification of duties, application of mechanization, a downward drift in relative pay, some unemployment, and some unionization.

prescient

—p.242 by Harry Braverman 21 hours, 57 minutes ago