In the second episode of our series on the impact of automation on workers, we turn to one of the century's greatest texts on the topic, Labor and Monopoly Capital by Harry Braverman. A former metal worker turned sociologist, Braverman brought his direct experience on the shop floor to his biting theoretical analysis of the reality that technology did not save workers labor or improve their lives, but instead degraded their jobs and their physical condition. Contrary to claims of technology developing objectively towards an inevitable optimum configuration, Braverman identified how the unceasing quest for total control of the production process by management led them to design and deploy technology in ways that were hugely detrimental to workers on the shop floor and society as a whole.
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