Work Work Work: Labor, Alienation, and Class Struggle
Michael D. Yates, "Work Work Work: Labor, Alienation, and Class Struggle "
English | ISBN: 1583679650 | 2022 | 216 pages | EPUB | 364 KB
English | ISBN: 1583679650 | 2022 | 216 pages | EPUB | 364 KB
A potent glimpse into the behind-the-scenes workplace control mechanisms which prevent workers from defending themselves from exploitation
For most economists, labor is simply a commodity, bought and sold in markets like any other – and what happens after that is not their concern. Individual prospective workers offer their services to individual employers, each acting solely out of self-interest and facing each other as equals. The forces of demand and supply operate so that there is neither a shortage nor a surplus of labor, and, in theory, workers and bosses achieve their respective ends. Michael D. Yates, in
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