mental/manual,etc

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:48 PM 2/4/00 -0800, you wrote:
>Carrol's framework seems particularly appropriate in
>the contemporary context of the proletarianization of
>the professions and of mental labor generally.  And I
>like the way the notion of "real status" allows  upper
>corporate managers and tenured professors to be
>included in the capitalist class.  Can anyone point me
>to any recent Marxist-oriented literature on these
>issues?
>Michael Davidson

Much of Ernest Mandel's Marxist economic theory deals with this, especially
"Late Capitalism" which unfortunately--like some of his other classics--is
out of print. Harry Braverman's "Labor and Monopoly Capitalism" fortunately
is in print and is chiefly concerned with the proletarianization of the
professions.

Louis Proyect

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