00000nam a2200000 i 4500 UP-100181420919525817 Buklod 20230316093356.0 m |o d | cr ||||||||||| 230316s2022 nyu o b 001 0 eng 9781583679654 (paperback) 22668661 DLC DSOLAIR rda eng HD 4901 Y38 2022 Yates, Michael 1946- author. Work work work labor, alienation, and class struggle Michael D. Yates. New York Monthly Review Press [2022] xviii, 178 pages illustrations 22 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction -- Take This Job and . . . -- Labor Markets: The Neoclassical Dogma -- Work Is Hell -- The Injuries of Class -- Panopticon -- A Divided Working Class -- The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers -- A Working-Class Revolt? Pandemic, Depression, and Protest in the United States -- Waging Class Struggle: From Principles to Practice. "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 Work Work Work: Labor, Alienation, and Class Struggle, offers a vastly different take on the nature of the labor market. This book reveals the raw truth: The labor market is in fact a mere veil over the exploitation of workers. Peek behind it, and we clearly see the extraction, by a small but powerful class of productive property-owning capitalists, of a surplus from a much larger and propertyless class of wage laborers. Work Work Work offers us a glimpse into the mechanisms critical to this subterfuge: In every workplace, capital implements a comprehensive set of control mechanisms to constrain those who toil from defending themselves against exploitation. These include everything from the herding of workers into factories to the extreme forms of surveillance utilized by today's "captains of industry" like the Walton family (of the Walmart empire) and Jeff Bezos"-- Provided by publisher. Labor. Social classes. Social conflict. Working class. Work Social aspects. FO UPD DSOLAIR HD 4901 Y38 2022 Book