Continuity and Change in Labor Process Analysis Forty Years after Labor and Monopoly Capital

Labor Studies Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 222-242

  Smith, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

capitalism; labour effort; labour mobility; labour power; labour process; management control

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948162056     PISSN: 0160449X     EISSN: 15389758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0160449X15607154     Document Type: Article

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