Labour process theory

Bridget Kenny

Chapter 2 in Theories and Concepts in Work and Employment Relations, 2025, pp 24-30 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Tracing its origins to the publication of Harry Braverman's Labor and Monopoly Capital, labour process theory (LPT) offers an abiding analysis of capitalism. This chapter reviews the basic premises of LPT in the indeterminacy of labour and the problem of control defining the capital–labour relation. It outlines key debates and reminds us of the richness of its empirical studies, which pinpoint changes to work and identify new forms of labour and resistance, including most recently through labour processes reshaped by platform work and digital technologies. It calls for using LPT to connect realms of production and reproduction and to analyse racialised capitalist relations. It argues that LPT is a necessary tool to explain and critique the social reproduction of capitalist relations.

Keywords: Labour process theory; Control; Skill; Technology; Labour regime; Social reproduction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035316199
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