如何解釋Degradation of work

Degradation of Work. 工作品質的降級(or 工作品質的降低)

Harry Braverman wrote Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century, which provided a critical analysis of scientific management. This book analyzed capitalist productive relations from a Marxist perspective. Braverman argued that work within capitalist organizations was exploitative and alienating, and therefore workers had to be coerced into servitude. For Braverman the pursuit of capitalist interests throughout time ultimately leads to deskilling and reutilization of the worker
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Harry Braverman 寫了勞方和獨佔資本： 20世紀裏降低的工作品質. 這本書提供了對科學管理的關鍵性分析。它從馬克思主義觀點分析資本家生產力的關連。, Braverman 爭辯資本家組織內的工作是剝削和失和的，所以工人得被逼迫成勞役. 對Braverman而言,追求資本家利益終究會導致工人喪失技能和工作常規化


The reason was that employers were always tempted to simplify work tasks, utilizing a variety of systems analysis techniques, and once this process was complete, management would rob the workers of their skills and replace skilled workers with a more pliant and less expensive workforce. The outcome was that workers would be steadily and consistently deskilled and the quality of work in American society would be continuously degraded.

Labor and Monopoly Capital is now the foundation text for many basic areas of scholarly inquiry, including critical examinations of methods of managerial control, of the relationship between technological innovation and social class, and of the eradication of skill from work.