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Economic & Political Weekly, 2019
Harry Braverman's seminal work "Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twenti... more Harry Braverman's seminal work "Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century" is perhaps more important than ever in the current rapidly advancing developments in the field of Robotics, Information Technology and Computerization. Yet there has been little debate or research in these matters by Indian scholars or for that matter even across the globe. Only now the onset of what could possibly be a truly epochal series of events over the past decade has seen the beginning of some discussion in the west. Braverman elaborated and provided a rich analysis of one of the core concepts of Marx's critique of Capitalism: That the essential means by which the capitalist produces a profit is the expropriation of surplus labour time from the workers beyond the need to sustain themselves or even their immediate family. If we accept this as axiomatic, then we must also accept that without this act of expropriation, capitalism as we understand it cannot operate. That is to say, an economic system that completely replaces the total aggregate available labour with automation, cannot by its very nature be called a Capitalist system. Throughout this paper this aspect of Marx's analysis as must be kept in mind. We must therefore look at the current global situation as one where automation and computer technology is but one of two pillars holding up the hegemonic paradigm of the current infotech age – the other being the set of treaties and national policies that has reached fruition since the fall of the Soviet Union, collectively and somewhat vaguely described as globalization. This paper attempts to highlight various aspects of the current economic and technological paradigms now manifesting themselves throughout the globe, in the spirit of Braverman's own work.
Economic & Political Weekly, 2019
Harry Braverman's seminal work "Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twenti... more Harry Braverman's seminal work "Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century" is perhaps more important than ever in the current rapidly advancing developments in the field of Robotics, Information Technology and Computerization. Yet there has been little debate or research in these matters by Indian scholars or for that matter even across the globe. Only now the onset of what could possibly be a truly epochal series of events over the past decade has seen the beginning of some discussion in the west. Braverman elaborated and provided a rich analysis of one of the core concepts of Marx's critique of Capitalism: That the essential means by which the capitalist produces a profit is the expropriation of surplus labour time from the workers beyond the need to sustain themselves or even their immediate family. If we accept this as axiomatic, then we must also accept that without this act of expropriation, capitalism as we understand it cannot operate. That is to say, an economic system that completely replaces the total aggregate available labour with automation, cannot by its very nature be called a Capitalist system. Throughout this paper this aspect of Marx's analysis as must be kept in mind. We must therefore look at the current global situation as one where automation and computer technology is but one of two pillars holding up the hegemonic paradigm of the current infotech age – the other being the set of treaties and national policies that has reached fruition since the fall of the Soviet Union, collectively and somewhat vaguely described as globalization. This paper attempts to highlight various aspects of the current economic and technological paradigms now manifesting themselves throughout the globe, in the spirit of Braverman's own work.