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New Proposals
ISSN 1715-6718 · New Proposals Publishing Society · 205 articles in the index
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Craftsmanship and Skill
How would Braverman respond to a contradiction in the present, where deskilling continues to happen along with an intensified attachment to work? This essay probes this by examining the craftsman. The idealization of craftsmanship had two implications for Braverman’s critique. First, it led to an…
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Harry Braverman’s Hauntology of the Capitalist Mode of Production
This article will explore the relevance of Harry Braverman's Labor and Monopoly Capital for studying the formation of the socioeconomic and political phenomenon of disability under contemporary capitalism on the one hand, and the contribution to anti-capitalist politics that a standpoint of…
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Reproduction, the Care Sector and the Question of Unproductive Labor in Braverman’s Labor and Monopoly Capital
Braverman’s (1998) Labor and Monopoly Capital offers a seminal account of the processes which shaped the labour process in modern capitalism. Since the 1970s, the expansion of low-wage productive labour has occurred in tandem with an increasing demand for care work, a consequence of the increasing…
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Braverman and Class Composition
Braverman’s Labor and Monopoly Capitalism has had a complicated and enduring legacy with research on the labour process, including shaping Labour Process Theory (LPT) as an academic area of study. Fifty years on, the debates within and beyond universities have continued on the changing nature of…
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Production Line TV
A growing body of research is investigating media production and the conditions of cultural work. However, there have been few attempts to apply Harry Braverman’s claims about labor under capitalism to this field (Sonn et al., 2019). In fact, there have been calls to reject his perspective and the…
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Real Subsumption and AI
This paper reframes Harry Braverman’s labor process theory as the practical manifestation of Marx’s concept of real subsumption of labor under capital. Building on Braverman’s analysis of Taylorism, I argue that management functions as the mediator of real subsumption, depriving workers of…
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Decomposing Books, Records and Desks
In Labour and Monopoly Capital (1974) Harry Braverman pointedly compares a chemical operator’s work of reading and checking dials to the pedestrian ability of reading a clock (155). By posing the question of whether it is really harder to read a dial than to tell time, he challenges the idea that…
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Introduction: Harry Braverman’s Labor and Monopoly Capital Fifty Years On
Introduction to the issue.
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Braverman and the Long Arc of Labor Process Theory
Conducting this interview sharpened my sense of responsibility as a labour researcher. I suspect that many readers of this special issue are navigating activist scholarship in and out of the academy so in this sense, I want to affirm that notions of responsibility and practices of militancy in both…
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Craft Fetishism
A central concern in Braverman’s (1974) Labor and Monopoly Capital is the role of skill in the struggle between labor and capital. The lasting understanding of the deskilling thesis is that changes in the organization of the labor process and its technical composition led to a siphoning of skill…
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Symposium Report
In July 2022, H-Empire held a symposium to explore topics related to enduring consequences of colonial capitalism in the contemporary Caribbean. Race, Class and Nationalism ‘after Empire’: The Fundamentals of the Caribbean Situation was organized by Scott Timcke and Shelene Gomes while additional…
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Political Political Power Struggles in Suriname
The lead up to the May 2020 elections in Suriname, a Dutch-speaking country in the Caribbean with a culturally diverse population of 550,000 people, was beset with several difficulties including the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. Although Suriname has had seventeen universal suffrage…
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Returning Home to Care
Caribbean women have historically done productive and reproductive work that has been rendered less than visible and undervalued economically and socially for the state, family, and community. Emigration from the Caribbean to economically wealthier states across the Global North and South remains…
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Mission and Submission
This paper explores the impacts of Presbyterianism on Indo-Trinidadian communities in Trinidad. Through interviews with notable figures in the Church’s history, surveys within Presbyterian congregations, and in-depth research into Presbyterianism’s history in Trinidad, an analysis was conducted on…
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The Postcolonial Complexities of Black Taste in Jamaican Rock Music
Reggae and dancehall represent popular tastes in Jamaica. Popular tastes in music were manufactured from ideas about Black authenticity. Black nationalist agendas maintained that authentic Jamaican music be tied to the colonial experiences of the enslaved and a continued resistance to Western…
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Embodied Hegemonies
Hegemonic ideologies both frame and limit the prevailing conception of the Trinidadian present. We can see this acutely at play with the struggles surrounding identity construction of Trinidadian women in the twenty-first century. In understanding the experience of women in Trinidadian society…
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Beyond the Singularity of Subordination
This paper examines how Achille Mbembe draws upon, then iterates from, the work of Aimé Césaire to provide a rich analysis of personhood in contemporary Africa. Typically, African treatments of Mbembe’s theorization place considerable emphasis on the intellectual influence of Frantz Fanon, rightly…
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The Marxian Populism of C.L.R James
This paper summarizes a critique of C.L.R James’ work which the author is in the process of developing. If it can provoke a response in the direction of greater clarification of James’ writings as a whole and what significance they deserve in Caribbean Social Thought, then it would have come close…