独占資本
Braverman was an industrial worker for most of his life in the United States during the height of Fordist labour management and production techniques in manufacturing. In "Labour and Monopoly Capital", he examines his own experiences through a Marxist perspective, drawing attention to the very small processes of work that were ignored by Marxists for much of the 20th century. His studies coincided with the autonomist Marxist theory in Italy which paid similar attention to the factory floor.