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Assignment 03/ Harry Braverman

Harry Braverman speaks about, how the capitalist true purpose is to boost the productivity and lower the cost of the labor force. This is achieved by breaking down each job to its simplest form to be able to maximize its profit. As the capitalist system needs to create division of labor, it does so by detailing the workmanship to the simplest form possible, as it aims to destroy craftsmanship.

In “ The Making of the working Class” The distinction that Harry Braverman is making between productive and unproductive work is that the capitalist system has used science and technology to make it possible to increase productivity and profit. This in turn created a shift that lessened the need for skilled workers. Due to this shift, in return created the need for robotic unskilled workers. As in the sample of the textile mills, with the industrialization of it’s manufacturing it lost their skilled workers. The machines were able to mass produce and increase its outputs. Its skilled workers were no longer needed and are then forced to go into unproductive work fields. This was usually in the accounting, banking or marketing firms that were considered to be very controlled industries, the workers there were considered cheap labor and very easily replaceable by other workers.