"[W]hile Braverman’s Labor and Monopoly Capital served to fill the gap left in Baran and Sweezy’s Monopoly Capital, Braverman at the same time took the description of the Scientific-Technical Revolution developed in Sweezy’s monograph, together with the general analysis of Monopoly Capital, as the historically specific basis of his own analysis. Fifty years after the publication of Labor and Monopoly Capital, the work thus remains the crucial entry point for the critical analysis of the labor process in our time, particularly with respect to the current AI-based automation.

Braverman’s basic argument in Labor and Monopoly Capital is now fairly well-known. Relying on nineteenth-century management theory, in particular the work of Babbage and Marx, he was able to extend the analysis of the labor process by throwing light on the role of scientific management introduced in twentieth-century monopoly capitalism by Fredrick Winslow Taylor and others. Babbage, nineteenth-century management theorist Andrew Ure, Marx, and Taylor had all seen the pre-mechanized division of labor as primary, and as the basis for the development of machine capitalism. Thus, the logic of an increasingly detailed division of labor, as depicted in Adam Smith’s famous pin example, could be viewed as antecedent and logically prior to the introduction of machinery.
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It was Braverman, following Marx’s lead, who brought what came to be known as the “Babbage principle” back into the contemporary discussion of the labor process in the context of late twentieth-century monopoly capitalism, referring to it as “the general law of the capitalist division of labor.”"

https://monthlyreview.org/2024/12/01/braverman-monopoly-capital-and-ai-the-collective-worker-and-the-reunification-of-labor/

#Automation #Capitalism #Monopolies #MonopolyCapital #Marx #Marxism #Algorithms #AI #DivisionofLabor

I am a woman married to a man. We’re not exactly a traditional cishet couple. He likes to paint his nails and I hate wearing makeup. Oh, and I’m #bisexual and #asexual.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/my-husband-and-i-dont-fit-neatly-into-traditional-gender-roles-b763505c44b7?sk=681b1b4db5409cdcef7b80e669910016

#LGBTQ #Marriage #GenderRoles #Chores #DivisionOfLabor

"I didn’t feel missed as a person, I felt missed as staff. My invisible labor was made painfully visible when I left the house.”

#MaggieSmith #Poetry #DivisionOfLabor #Marriage #Divorce

https://www.thecut.com/article/book-excerpt-you-could-make-this-place-beautiful-maggie-smith.html

Women continued doing the majority of housework, even when they end a relationship and marry (or move in with) a new male partner.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35756753

#NICHDImpact #GenderEquity #Housework #Gender #DivisionofLabor #Marriage #Relationships #Family

In spring 2020, U.S. fathers did more housework and childcare than usual when both partners worked from home, but the gender gap in domestic work did NOT change because mothers also did more.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35599685

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