Labor process theory

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. Recent attempts have been made to use labour process theory to explain workers' bargaining power under contemporary global capitalism.

References

Selwyn, Ben. (2007) “Labor Process and Workers’ Bargaining Power in Export Grape Production, North East Brazil.” Journal of Agrarian Change, 7 (4): 526-553.

Silver, Beverly, 2003. Forces of Labour: Workers Movements and Globalization Since 1870. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.