Harry Braverman

Harry Braverman
BornDecember 9, 1920
New York City
DiedAugust 2, 1976
Honesdale, Pennsylvania

Harry Braverman (December 9, 1920 – August 2, 1976)[1] was an American Marxist, worker, political economist and revolutionary. Born in New York City to a working-class family, Braverman worked in a variety of metal smithing industries before becoming an editor at Grove Press, and later Monthly Review Press, where he worked until his death at the age of 55 in Honesdale, Pennsylvania.[2] Braverman is most widely known for his 1974 book Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century,[3] "a text that literally christened the emerging field of labor process studies" and which in turn "reinvigorated intellectual sensibilities and revived the study of the work process in fields such as history, sociology, economics, political science, and human geography."[4]: 33 

  1. ^ Frank W. Elwell Archived September 17, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, "Harry Braverman and the Working Class".
  2. ^ Pagano, Uno (2000). "Harry Braverman". In Philip Arestis and Malcolm C. Sawyer (ed.). A Biographical Dictionary of Dissenting Economists. New York: Edward Elgar Publishing. pp. 79–87. ISBN 9781843761396.
  3. ^ Braverman, Harry (1998) [1974]. Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century. New York: Monthly Review Press. ISBN 0853459401.
  4. ^ Palmer, Bryan D. (1999). "Before Braverman: Harry Frankel and the American workers' movement". Monthly Review. 50 (8): 33–46. doi:10.14452/MR-050-08-1999-01_5. S2CID 144319591.