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Work Work Work - Labor, Alienation, and Class Struggle (Hardcover)
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Work Work Work - Labor, Alienation, and Class Struggle (Hardcover)
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Explains the reality of labor markets and the nature and necessity
of class struggle 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 Waltons family (of the Walmart empire) and
Jeff Bezos. In these strikingly lucid and passionately written
chapters, Yates explains the reality of labor markets, the nature
of work in capitalist societies, and the nature and necessity of
class struggle, which alone can bring exploitation – and the
system of control that makes it possible – to a final end.
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