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Labor Process Theory is a late Marxist theory of the organization of work under capitalism. It critiques scientific management as authored by Frederick W Taylor in the early 1900s, and uses central concepts developed by Harry Braverman in the 1970s.[1]

  1. ^ Braverman, Harry. (1974) Labor and Monopoly Capital. New York, Free Press