REEVALUATING THE LABOR PROCESS DEBATE

From the publication of Braverman's Labor. and Monopoly Capital there has been a continued debate on the labour process in Britain. what rel evance does this polemic have for the contemporary global restructurin g of work? This article reviews the main developments within the broad labour process debate, including changes in the division of labour, c ontrol structures and cultural management. In addition, it links labou r process enquiry to wider structural trends and the relationship betw een the idea of a specifically capitalist labour process and divergent national ways of organizing work. The authors argue that the tools an d concepts of labour process theory remain equally important for analy sing today's workplace.