TY - JOUR
AU - Elger, Tony
AB - VALORISATION AND `DESKILLING' A CRITIQUE OF BRAVERMAN Tony Elger Braverman's work has been central to the return of attention to the study of the capitalist labour process . This paper focusses on his major theme, and rejects as inadequate both his analysis of capital's generic impulsion to deskill and his location of the consummation of that impulsion in monopoly capitalism . Instead it argues for an historically located theoris- ation of the transformation of the labour process, which would explicitly locate that transformation in relation to phases of valorisation and accu- mulation and their contradictions . Some features of such an account are discussed, with particular reference to debate about the 'labour aristo- cracy', analyses of the role of Taylorism and contemporary discussions of automation . INTRODUCTION[l] The Marxist analysis of the capitalist labour process is a relatively recent but increasingly significant aspect of the general renewal and development of Marxist analysis of contemporary capitalism . Braverman's Labour and Monopoly Capital has been one of the most influential contributions to this development and remains the fullest restatement to date of some of the fundamental themes of such an analysis. His work has served as both point of reference and 
TI - Valorisation and ‘Deskilling’: A Critique of Braverman: 
JF - Capital and Class
DO - 10.1177/030981687900700104
DA - 2016-09-12
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/valorisation-and-deskilling-a-critique-of-braverman-0QC5WHkF8B
SP - 58
EP - 99
VL - 3
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -