Volume 21, Number 21 & 22 · January 23, 1975
Men at Work
By Robert L. Heilbroner
Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century
by Harry Braverman
Monthly Review Press, 465 pp., $12.50
Marxian economics, as I have written more than once in these pages, continues to exert its powerful intellectual influence, even though the formal study of Marxism hardly exists in American universities. One of the reasons for this persisting influence is that Marxian economics bears on many problems that are ignored or lightly passed over by conventional economics. For example, during the 1930s and 1940s Marxism commanded special interest because of its concern with capitalist breakdown. Then during the 1950s and 1960s, Marxian economics again seemed pertinent because of its concentration on the global effects of capitalist market forces. In recent years still another 'Marxian' economic question has become urgent. This is the problem of the working life of man.
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