Which of the following developments most encouraged “monopoly capitalism”?
AbstractWorkers have always resisted exploitation in the capitalist mode of production. This resistance has taken on many different forms, but both particular forms of resistance and general resistance itself have been unevenly distributed among different groups of workers throughout capitalism’s history. During Modern Industry high skills and well-organised resistance were strongly correlated. With the spread of trade unionism among less skilled workers and continued deskilling during the transition to Monopoly Capitalism this correlation has been weakened. Two major changes in worker resistance have accompanied the coming of Monopoly Capitalism. First, workers’ larger organisations for resistance have become centralised and have lost their militancy. This has encouraged the development of alternative, often antagonistic, local forms of resistance. Second, with the drying-up of the latent industrial reserve army in Britain and the growth of individual firm-size in relation to local labour power markets, as internal labour markets have grown in importance (see discussion in 1870s–1914 section below), worker resistance has been increasingly successful at winning real wage rises and improvements in working conditions. Show
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Copyright information© 1977 Andrew L. Friedman About this chapterCite this chapterFriedman, A.L. (1977). Worker Resistance — Historical Development. In: Industry and Labour. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15845-4_5 Download citation
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