Talk:Harry Braverman

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Most of the content (Braverman's bio) was copy and pasted from http://www.in.com/harry-braverman/biography-114121.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.84.68.252 (talk) 04:41, 8 May 2013 (UTC) I have changed and added a source on the biographical information. I am also vetting the rest of the entry. Jamil (talk • contribs)

I removed the following paragraphs so I could vet them first. Jamil (talk • contribs) In the 1950s, Harry Braverman was one of the leaders of the so-called Cochranite tendency, a current led by Bert Cochran within the broader Socialist Workers Party. The Cochranites rejected revolutionary agitation under the dual pressures of relative post-World War II capitalist prosperity and the accompanying McCarthy-era anti-communist witch-hunt. They argued that the current capitalist expansion would last for an extended period, which precluded renewed revolutionary struggles by working people. Eventually the Cochranites, including Braverman, were expelled from the SWP. They formed the American Socialist Union, to whose journal Braverman was a regular contributor. Braverman's attack on the capitalist labor process was simultaneously an attack on the class inequality inherent in worker-manager relations. While managers were not necessarily the owners of capital, they did act act on behalf of capitalist interests. He also pointed out that all occupational groups, including white-collar management, were subject to the same process of disassociation of the labor process from workers' skills and control, as capitalism sought ever better efficiency in all aspects of the labor processes.

before helping to found the first Trotskyist party in the United States: the Socialist Workers Party.

In his early political work, Braverman sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Harry Frankel. During the early 1960s, Harry Braverman worked as an editor for Grove Press, where he was instrumental in publishing The Autobiography of Malcolm X. In 1967 he became managing director of Monthly Review Press, a position which he continued for the rest of his life. Braverman's most important book was Labor and Monopoly Capital, which examines the degrading effect of capitalism on work in America. The book was published in 1974. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rjonna (talk • contribs) 05:58, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

unintelligible pseudo-sentence

"Marx saw that the emergence of machinery and the increasing workers' control over the labor process since workers' skills shifted into tending the machines."

Someone Who Isn't Me needs to fix this. Lewis Goudy (talk) 12:17, 4 March 2019 (UTC)