Commemorating its twentieth anniversary, this paper examines the legacy of Harry Braverman's Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century. Braverman's book provoked three areas of inquiry that continue to thrive and to orient sociological research: the topic of worker's interests, participation, and resistances; gendered outcomes and causes of labor process transformation; and the interrelated topic of changes in skill levels and control strategies. The paper describes the conceptual transformation these topics have undergone and identifies lingering dilemmas facing those who study the labor process in the late twentieth century.
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