LABOR PROCESS /
VALORIZATION
40 years after Labor
and Monopoly Capital, by Harry Braverman
Deadline for submission of articles: January 31, 2014
(Articles in Portuguese and English)
(Articles in Portuguese and English)
“The distinctive capacity of human labor power is,
therefore, not its ability to produce a surplus, but rather its intelligent and
purposive character, which gives it infinite adaptability and which produces
the social and cultural conditions for enlarging its own productivity, so that
its surplus product may be continuously enlarged. From the point of view of the
capitalist, this many-sided potentiality of humans in society is the basis upon
which is built the enlargement of his capital” (BRAVERMAN, 1998, p. 38).
The purpose of this call is fostering discussions on the
labor process in the capitalist mode of production, having in mind the 40th
anniversary of the publication of Labor and Monopoly Capital: the degradation
of work in the twentieth century, by Harry Braverman. As is generally known,
this book resumed the discussions of Sociology of Work worldwide by evoking the
links between the labor process and the monopoly phase of capital. From this
copious influence, remained the so-called Labor Process Theory, which engenders
discussions and events abroad (http://www.ilpc.org.uk/). The discussions from
Braverman’s book, under the critical guidance of Micheal Burawoy, also,
prompted considerations that, right or wrong, staked out the conditions for
setting what came to be the Critical Management Studies (KNIGHTS and WILLMOTT,
1990).
Additionally, all movement in the different chains that put
on hold the category work discussing its validity for a social criticism or its
centrality to social life (Jürgen Habermas, Claus Offe, and Andre Gorz, and
resonances in the recognition theory as it appears in Axel Honneth, in addition
to authors having even postmodernist attitudes, such as Zygmunt Bauman), also
served to greatly deviate research on the work problem (compare,
notwithstanding, to different movements which do not claim such centrality
under the terms of criticism, as György Lukács, Ernest Mandel, István Mészáros,
etc.). Not by chance, the so-called Organizational Studies, which partly
reflect on the issues of social and economic sciences, manifest the tendency to
pass off the problems of the labor process as valorization process of capital
by preferring other themes also important that, however, keep away from the key
determinations of this sociability observed, whose guiding core is still
(against the most varied prognoses) the logic of value.
Therefore, celebrating this work by Braverman means opening
the possibility for discussions which bring up the issues directly associated
to work and labor process in the capitalist production, addressing, by way of
example, these possible points:
· Issues concerning the centrality of work;
· New expressions of work degradation;
· Work, work division, and command technique (administration) at work;
· Work, State, and social policies;
· Work and new expressions of the “social question”;
· Work and feminism;
· Others.
· New expressions of work degradation;
· Work, work division, and command technique (administration) at work;
· Work, State, and social policies;
· Work and new expressions of the “social question”;
· Work and feminism;
· Others.
We would like to invite authors to prepare theoretical and
empirical papers.
Cadernos EBAPE.BR is an online journal on Administration published inRio de Janeiro , Brazil ,
by EBAPE/FGV (Brazilian
School
Cadernos EBAPE.BR is an online journal on Administration published in
The authors should follow the guidelines for submitting
articles to Cadernos EBAPE.BR in:
The articles should be submitted through the link: http://bibliotecadigital.fgv.br/ojs/index.php/cadernosebape/login
You must register as an author, if you have not done it
previously.
The deadline for article submission is January 31, 2014.
Note: please indicate in the field "AUTHOR’S COMMENTS”
(bottom of the page – 1st stage of the procedure) that your article is for the
special issue: “Labor process/appreciation 40 years after Labor and Monopoly
Capital, by Harry Braverman”.
Specific questions about the special issue should be
directly addressed to the guest editor: Elcemir Paço Cunha (elcemirpacocunha@gmail.com).
Guest Editor
Elcemir Paço Cunha
Associate Professor of the Post-Graduation Programs in Social Service and Law at the Universidade Federal de Juiz de For a
Elcemir Paço Cunha
Associate Professor of the Post-Graduation Programs in Social Service and Law at the Universidade Federal de Juiz de For a
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