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Describe how the three features of the labour process interact and give an example of how these have changed in one particular job (e.g. office work) over a period of time.
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Describe how the three features of the labour process interact and give an example of how these have changed in one particular job (e.g. office work) over a period of time. You should pay particular attention to the benefits of change, showing who gains from advances in technology for instance. Primarily to understand the rational of the subject we must establish the three features of the labour process as originally defined by Karl Marx: * Material (the subject of the work). * Tools (instruments of work). * Labours (the personal activity of man). 2 Secondly, it is necessary to state that "The capitalist labour process is one in which the interests of the capital-owning class are represented by managements whose basic task is to design, control and monitor work tasks and activities so as to ensure the effective extraction of surplus value from the labour activity of employees. A" (Watson, 1995, p260) 1 The three features...
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