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Harry Braverman “working class”

Breverman explains ( P.15) that working class is divided by sex ,race,occupations and industries and many others reasons. It’s important to understand that society of the working class is a recent occurrence in the United States, only a century since hieing the working class became the majority. Example a shoe maker owns his shop is not working, the people he hires are “working class” but the owner of the shop isn’t because he is there to supervise the working class.

A worker can increase productivity by saving time that is usually lost in changing from job to job. He thought that you are more productive when you stay at the same job for many years. All because doing the same job many times increase peoples ability to perform simple operations. Also buying machines to help the workers in simple tasks. He felt the more jobs are separated into smaller tasks the more productivity is gather in the manufacturing process.

>Braverman said that the capitalist problem starts in the buying and selling of labor. When a worker selling of labor. When a worker sells something and the capitalist buys it, is not what makes a productive work time.(P.30)  That a capitalist society has its own way to guide labor into places that make more sense. Sense the 1920s in the United States there has been a tremendous movement of unproductive labor. He mentions that such industries like welfare offices, unemployment banking ,insurance and real estate industries are unproductive industries. All because the employment in these areas is raising and because of it employment in all others the unproductive employment it is cousin a rapid rise in unemployment.

This society is more focused on profits rather than on production of a product. He also mentions in (P.32) that in this society the inverted pyramid is taking place because the productive labor is getting narrower and the workers are driven to produce a greater product. Because of the Capitalist system industries who don’t produce anything themselves are thriving and move the surplus and capital.

In conclusion Braverman said, to increase productivity we need to stay at the same job for longer periods of time because we would help and it increases productivity. He mentions that the capitalist society is increasing unproductive workers. He also said that many industries like insurance and real estate are unproductive because these jobs are taking over the productive jobs. As a result unemployment is on the rise.